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3100 | word:
a la
word_type:
prep
expansion:
a la
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French à la.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] the flaming purification of Diane Johnson's Los Angeles a la Sodom and Gomorrah […]
ref:
1971, The New York Times, Book review of Burning
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the style or manner of.
senses_topics:
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3101 | word:
Jupiter
word_type:
name
expansion:
Jupiter
forms:
wikipedia:
Jupiter
etymology_text:
From Latin Iūpiter (“father Jove”), from Proto-Italic *djous patēr (literally “sky father”) (cognate with Ancient Greek Ζεῦ πάτερ (Zeû páter, “father Zeus”)), from *djous (“day, sky”) + *patēr (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (literally “the bright one”), from *dyew- (“to be bright, day sky”), and *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Doublet of Dyaus Pita.
senses_examples:
text:
Brazil could be considered the Jupiter of South America.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fifth and by far the largest planet in the Solar System, a gas giant, represented by the symbol ♃ in astronomy. Jupiter is known for its Great Red Spot and many moons including the Galilean moons.
The King of the Gods, also called Jove. Equivalent to the Greek Zeus, Jupiter was one of the children of Saturn. As supreme god of the Roman pantheon, Jupiter was the god of thunder, lightning, and storms, and appropriately called the god of light and sky.
The largest of a group of things or a region.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Tuolumne County, California, named after a mine.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Palm Beach County, Florida, named in error after the Roman god.
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Kittson County, Minnesota, named after the planet.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Buncombe County, North Carolina.
A summer resort on the Black Sea in Romania.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
|
3102 | word:
Jupiter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Jupiter (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Jupiter
etymology_text:
From Latin Iūpiter (“father Jove”), from Proto-Italic *djous patēr (literally “sky father”) (cognate with Ancient Greek Ζεῦ πάτερ (Zeû páter, “father Zeus”)), from *djous (“day, sky”) + *patēr (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (literally “the bright one”), from *dyew- (“to be bright, day sky”), and *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Doublet of Dyaus Pita.
senses_examples:
text:
5. Jupiter, a Mace of Majestry in Bend Sol.
ref:
1693, Richard Blome, The Art of Heraldry, in two parts ... second edition ..., pages 76-77
type:
quotation
text:
George [...] 2d. Jupiter, three Fleurs de Lis Sol, for the Arms of France. 3d. Jupiter, an Irish Harp Sol, stringed Luna, for Ireland.
ref:
1718, Samuel Kent, The Grammar of Heraldry … Second Edition
type:
quotation
text:
8. Tierce in Mantle, first Mars, two Lions passant-guardant in pale, Sol, for Brunswick; 2d Sol, Semi of Hearts proper, a Lion rampant Jupiter, for Lunenburgh; 3d, ente en Point, Mars, an Horse currant Luna, for Saxony. Note, these Ensigns (which are the paternal Coat of his Majesty King George) I have added as an Example, to shew the Form of what foreign Heralds term Tierce in Mantle, ente en Pointe, &c. […]
ref:
1735, Francis Nichols, The Irish Compendium … vol. III of the British Compendium, second edition, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
ARMS. QUARTERLY, in the first grand Quarter Mars, three Lions passant-guardant in Pale, Sol; the Imperial Ensigns of England, impaled with the Royal Arms of Scotland, which are Sol, a Lion rampant within a double Tressure flower'd and counterflower'd with Fleurs-de-lis, Mars. The second Quarter is the Royal Arms of France, viz. Jupiter, three Fleurs-de-lis, Sol. The third, the Ensign of Ireland, which is, Jupiter, an Harp Sol, stringed Luna.
ref:
1737, Benjamin Martin, Bibliotheca Technologica: Or, a Philological Library, page 631
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Azure (blue), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.
Tin.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
alchemy
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
pseudoscience |
3103 | word:
peruke
word_type:
noun
expansion:
peruke (plural perukes)
forms:
form:
perukes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French perruque. Doublet of periwig.
senses_examples:
text:
Every chair was filled, the line of assistants working like conjurors at the bizarre hairstyles, a splendid confusion of feathers and flared perukes, wings of back-brushed hair, like the plumage of an aviary.
ref:
1979, J.G. Ballard, chapter 19, in The Unlimited Dream Company
type:
quotation
text:
With a delicate touch, he reset his golden peruke on his sweat-slick skull.
ref:
1992, Kim Newman, Anno Dracula, Titan Books, published 2011, page 135
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A wig, especially one with long hair on the sides and back, worn mainly by men in the 17th and 18th centuries.
senses_topics:
|
3104 | word:
quadrant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quadrant (plural quadrants)
forms:
form:
quadrants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
quadrant
etymology_text:
From Middle English quadrant, from Old French cadran, quadrant and its etymon Latin quadrāns, -antis (“fourth part of something, quarter”). Doublet of quadrans.
senses_examples:
text:
Kids, I swear, I'm gonna love all of you, and equally. I'll be dividing my love into seven equal sections, or "Love Quadrants". Each quadrant will be worth 15 "Love Units" represented by these small brass marbles. You may use these marbles as currency amongst yourselves. Collect 35 "Love Units", you can trade those in for a beach towel with my face on it.
ref:
2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Xavier (Vernon Chatman)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines.
One of the four regions of the Cartesian plane bounded by the x-axis and y-axis.
One fourth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 90°.
A measuring device with a graduated arc of 90° used in locating an altitude.
One of the four categories of team wins and losses, as categorized by strength of schedule.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
nautical
transport
|
3105 | word:
quadrant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quadrant (plural quadrants)
forms:
form:
quadrants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
quadrant
etymology_text:
From Middle English quadrant, quadrante, from Latin quadrātum; form influenced by Etymology 1. Doublet of quadrat and quadrate.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A square or quadrangle.
senses_topics:
|
3106 | word:
imperative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
imperative (comparative more imperative, superlative most imperative)
forms:
form:
more imperative
tags:
comparative
form:
most imperative
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin imperātīvus.
senses_examples:
text:
That you come here right now is imperative.
type:
example
text:
Meantime, alterations at King William Street had become imperative, and by December 22, 1895, the station had been remodelled, as at Stockwell, to provide an island platform with lines each side, and a scissors crossing.
ref:
1941 May, “Jubilee of the City Tube”, in Railway Magazine, page 224
type:
quotation
text:
Give this document to Ozzy. It's imperative that he reads and understands it. Got it?
ref:
2019, Con Man Games, SmashGames, quoting Felix, Kindergarten 2, SmashGames
type:
quotation
text:
imperative orders
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Essential; crucial; extremely important.
Of, or relating to the imperative mood.
Having semantics that incorporates mutable variables.
Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
3107 | word:
imperative
word_type:
noun
expansion:
imperative (countable and uncountable, plural imperatives)
forms:
form:
imperatives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin imperātīvus.
senses_examples:
text:
The verbs in sentences like "Do it!" and "Say what you like!" are in the imperative.
type:
example
text:
Visiting Berlin is an imperative.
type:
example
text:
Anything grandiose or historically based tends to sound flat and banal when it reaches English, partly because translators get stuck between contradictory imperatives: juggling fidelity to the original sense with what is vocally viable, they tend to resort to a genteel fustian which lacks either poetic resonance or demotic realism, adding to a sense of artificiality rather than enhancing credibility.
ref:
2014 March 1, Rupert Christiansen, “English translations rarely sing”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R19
type:
quotation
text:
The new imperative for investment is the Government's objective to secure carbon-neutral transport emissions by 2040.
ref:
2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs of cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.
A verb in imperative mood.
An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
3108 | word:
Russia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Russia (countable and uncountable, plural Russias)
forms:
form:
Russias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
1530s, from Medieval Latin Russi (“the people of Russia”), from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ, “Rus”) (whence Arabic رُوس (rūs) and Byzantine Greek Ῥῶς (Rhôs)), which originally referred to a group of Varangians who established themselves near Kiev in the 9th century and ruled Kievan Rus; probably from Proto-Finnic *roocci, from Old East Norse *roþs- (“related to rowing”); related to Old Norse Roþrslandi (“the land of rowing”), an older name of Roslagen, where the Finns first encountered the Swedes. Ultimately from Old Norse róðr (“steering oar”), from Proto-Germanic *rōþrą (“rudder”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”).
senses_examples:
text:
Ukraine (“frontier”), the name formerly given to a district of European Russia, now comprising the governments of Kharkov, Kiev, Podolia and Poltava.
ref:
1911, “Ukraine”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
type:
quotation
text:
Ukraine (“frontier”), the name formerly given to a district of European Russia, now comprising the governments of Kharkov, Kiev, Podolia and Poltava.
ref:
1911, “Ukraine”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
type:
quotation
text:
Or rather if I be attaining a better autocratship than that of the Emperor of all the Russias — the empire over self.
ref:
1842, George Eliot, Selections from George Eliot's letters, Letter to Cara Bray, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
Then there is White Russia and Red Russia, Great Russia and Little Russia, Russia of the Frozen North and Russia of the Far East — a Russia equally dangerous to every one of her neighbours […]
ref:
1914, Russia and the Russian People
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. Official name: Russian Federation. Capital and largest city: Moscow. It borders the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the Baltic, Black, and Caspian Seas. Part of the Soviet Union from 1917 through 1991.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (a very common name, although more formally Russia, the RSFSR, was one of several constituent republics of the USSR).
The Russian Empire; the tsarist empire in Russia lasting from 1721 to 1917.
Kievan Rus; the medieval East Slavic state centered in Kiev.
Any of several East Slavic states descended from Kievan Rus, typically including Russia (Great Russia), Belarus (White Russia) and Ukraine (Little Russia).
senses_topics:
|
3109 | word:
Russia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Russia (countable and uncountable, plural Russias)
forms:
form:
Russias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
1530s, from Medieval Latin Russi (“the people of Russia”), from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ, “Rus”) (whence Arabic رُوس (rūs) and Byzantine Greek Ῥῶς (Rhôs)), which originally referred to a group of Varangians who established themselves near Kiev in the 9th century and ruled Kievan Rus; probably from Proto-Finnic *roocci, from Old East Norse *roþs- (“related to rowing”); related to Old Norse Roþrslandi (“the land of rowing”), an older name of Roslagen, where the Finns first encountered the Swedes. Ultimately from Old Norse róðr (“steering oar”), from Proto-Germanic *rōþrą (“rudder”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”).
senses_examples:
text:
Dull Russias will prove a good selling line for women according to the predictions of certain manufacturers.
ref:
1914, Shoe and Leather Journal, volume 27, page 36
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Short for Russia leather.
senses_topics:
|
3110 | word:
centipede
word_type:
noun
expansion:
centipede (plural centipedes)
forms:
form:
centipedes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
centipede
etymology_text:
From French centipède, from Latin centipeda, centipēs, from centi- (“hundred”) + pēs (“foot”); equivalent to centi- + -pede.
senses_examples:
text:
Centipedes differ from millipedes by having a single pair of legs on each body segment.
ref:
1993, Gordon M. Nishida, JoAnn M. Tenorio, What Bit Me?: Identifying Hawai'i's Stinging and Biting Insects and Their Kin, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
The existence of millipedes, centipedes, insects, and spiders along-side the first tetrapods sustained a robust ecosystem in which most animals were predators or scavengers.
ref:
2008, Thom Holmes, March Onto Land: The Silurian Period to the Middle Triassic Epoch, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
All centipedes (Chilopoda) and spiders (Aranea) are predatory and although they are often found on corpses their impact on the other fauna is not known.
ref:
2011, Alan Gunn, Essential Forensic Biology, 2nd edition, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.
A many-oared Chinese smuggling boat.
senses_topics:
|
3111 | word:
balalaika
word_type:
noun
expansion:
balalaika (plural balalaikas or balalaiki)
forms:
form:
balalaikas
tags:
plural
form:
balalaiki
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Russian балала́йка (balalájka).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A plucked stringed instrument with a triangular body, short neck and three strings, of Russian origin.
senses_topics:
|
3112 | word:
Hebrew
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Hebrew (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Ebreu, from Old French Ebreu, from Latin hebraeus or hebraicus, from Ancient Greek Ἑβραῖος (Hebraîos), from Aramaic עִבְרַי (ʿiḇray), from Hebrew עִבְרִי (ʿiḇrī́).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the Hebrew people or language.
senses_topics:
|
3113 | word:
Hebrew
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Hebrew (countable and uncountable, plural Hebrews)
forms:
form:
Hebrews
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Ebreu, from Old French Ebreu, from Latin hebraeus or hebraicus, from Ancient Greek Ἑβραῖος (Hebraîos), from Aramaic עִבְרַי (ʿiḇray), from Hebrew עִבְרִי (ʿiḇrī́).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member or descendant of a Semitic people claiming descent from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
A descendant of the biblical Patriarch Eber.
The Semitic language spoken by the Hebrew people.
The writing system used in Hebrew language.
Unintelligible speech or writing.
senses_topics:
|
3114 | word:
boomerang
word_type:
noun
expansion:
boomerang (plural boomerangs)
forms:
form:
boomerangs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
boomerang
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Dharug bumariny.
senses_examples:
text:
Some resemblance to terrestrial things, it is true, everyone can behold in the heavens. Corona, for example, is like a crown, or, as the Australian black fellows know, it is like a boomerang, and we can understand why they give it the name of that curious curved missile.
ref:
1884, Andrew Lang, “Star Myths”, in Custom and Myth
type:
quotation
text:
With boomerang and spear they hunted the kangaroo and emu, and fought their battles beneath the eucalyptus forests; their minds, fresh, untroubled, contented, oblivious alike of noble ideals and philosophic principles.
ref:
1897, Warren Bert Kimberly, History of West Australia
type:
quotation
text:
1961, Charlie Drake, song, My Boomerang Won't Come Back,
"Don't worry, boy, I know the trick, / And to you I'm gonna show it. / If you want your boomerang to come back, / Well first you've got to... throw it."
text:
Roll: A live action changing from one color to another. Typically requires dexterity to "crossfade" between two colors in the boomerang with one hand while following with the other.
ref:
2013, Steven Louis Shelley, A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting
type:
quotation
text:
If you are spot one you should push down on the first lever on the boomerang to load frame one. Spot two should do the same with frame five. On the go, both spot ops should run their dowser levers to bring the light up on the target specified by the cue caller.
ref:
2013, John Holloway, Illustrated Theatre Production Guide, page 144
type:
quotation
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:boomerang.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flat curved airfoil that spins about an axis perpendicular to the direction of flight, originally used in various parts of the world as a hunting weapon or, in returnable types, for sports or training.
A breakdancing move in which the performer walks on their hands while keeping the legs raised off the ground.
A boomerang kick.
A device for changing the color of a followspot.
An early return of an aircraft whose mission was aborted, often due to technical failures.
A cocktail made with rye whiskey and Swedish punsch.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
entertainment
lifestyle
theater
|
3115 | word:
boomerang
word_type:
verb
expansion:
boomerang (third-person singular simple present boomerangs, present participle boomeranging, simple past and past participle boomeranged)
forms:
form:
boomerangs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
boomeranging
tags:
participle
present
form:
boomeranged
tags:
participle
past
form:
boomeranged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
boomerang
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Dharug bumariny.
senses_examples:
text:
"Well, there must be some flaw about this," I suggested. "If your magnet is so strong as all that, you would have your own broadside boomeranging back upon you."
ref:
1882 March 7, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters
type:
quotation
text:
"Oh," they yelled, "you could, eh? Well, let's see you do it, then! Let's see you do it! Let's see you do it! Now!" In a moment the crew of little spectators were gibing at Horace. The blow that would make Jimmie's humiliation complete! Instead, it had boomeranged Horace into the mud.
ref:
1899 November, “"Showin' Off"”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 99, number 594
type:
quotation
text:
Our future economic success depends on the economy growing faster than government spending. That's why raising taxes would boomerang. Economic growth would slow, revenues would decline, and the budget deficit would swell.
ref:
1985 February 2, Ronald Reagan, Presidential Radio Address
type:
quotation
text:
He said that to the horse as it boomeranged off again and broke away through the scrub.
ref:
1894, Henry Lawson, “The Mystery of Dave Regan”, in Short Stories in Prose and Verse
type:
quotation
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:boomerang.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To return or rebound unexpectedly, especially when the result is undesired; to backfire.
To travel in a curved path.
To abort a mission and return to base early.
senses_topics:
|
3116 | word:
declension
word_type:
noun
expansion:
declension (countable and uncountable, plural declensions)
forms:
form:
declensions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
declension
etymology_text:
From Middle English declenson, from Middle French declinaison (Modern French: déclinaison), from Latin dēclīnātiō. Doublet of declination.
senses_examples:
text:
Refinement of feeling, intellectual tastes, and a noble hospitality, were among the features of his character; and hoary years brought no mental declension, and drew no shade over the ardent affections by which he was distinguished, and in whose reciprocity, was his undeclining solace.
ref:
1845, Lydia Sigourney, Scenes in my Native Land, The Great Oak of Geneseo, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
The custom of rolling a burning wheel down a hill […] might well pass for an imitation of the sun's course in the sky, and the imitation would be especially appropriate on Midsummer Day when the sun's annual declension begins.
ref:
1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 268
type:
quotation
text:
a page full of declensions
type:
example
text:
In Latin, 'amicus' belongs to the second declension. Most second-declension nouns end in '-i' in the genitive singular and '-um' in the accusative singular.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A falling off, decay or descent.
The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
The product of that act; a list of declined forms.
A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
3117 | word:
belly flop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
belly flop (plural belly flops)
forms:
form:
belly flops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A style of diving into a body of water in which the surface impact is made mostly by one's abdomen.
A similar move performed on a trampoline.
A flop; an utter failure.
senses_topics:
diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
3118 | word:
belly flop
word_type:
verb
expansion:
belly flop (third-person singular simple present belly flops, present participle belly flopping, simple past and past participle belly flopped)
forms:
form:
belly flops
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
belly flopping
tags:
participle
present
form:
belly flopped
tags:
participle
past
form:
belly flopped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To perform this type of dive.
To perform this type of trampolining move.
senses_topics:
|
3119 | word:
Korean
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Korean (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Korean
etymology_text:
From Korea + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to the Asian Peninsula comprising North Korea and South Korea.
Of or relating to the Korean language.
senses_topics:
|
3120 | word:
Korean
word_type:
name
expansion:
Korean (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Korean
etymology_text:
From Korea + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Official language of the people residing on the Korean Peninsula, and language of approximately 60 million people, in Asia, North America, and elsewhere.
senses_topics:
|
3121 | word:
Korean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Korean (plural Koreans)
forms:
form:
Koreans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Korean
etymology_text:
From Korea + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or resident in North Korea or South Korea, or a person of Korean descent.
senses_topics:
|
3122 | word:
Aussie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Aussie (plural Aussies)
forms:
form:
Aussies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Aussie
etymology_text:
Clipping of Australia + -ie.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Australian.
An Australian Shepherd dog.
Australian dollar (see also; Aussie dollar).
senses_topics:
business
finance |
3123 | word:
Aussie
word_type:
name
expansion:
Aussie
forms:
wikipedia:
Aussie
etymology_text:
Clipping of Australia + -ie.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Australia (now uncommon except in sporting chants and in New Zealand).
senses_topics:
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3124 | word:
Aussie
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Aussie (not generally comparable, comparative more Aussie, superlative most Aussie)
forms:
form:
more Aussie
tags:
comparative
form:
most Aussie
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Aussie
etymology_text:
Clipping of Australia + -ie.
senses_examples:
text:
From the Marvel Mixmaster to the Miracle Microwave, every time a new-fangled gadget has lobbed into the Aussie kitchen, Aussie mums have changed their cooking styles accordingly.
ref:
1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
Most Aussie officers seemed this way to me; always cool, deliberate, and extremely rational in their decision making, a far cry from the American leadership I had seen during my first year in the army.
ref:
1998, Gordon L. Steinbrook, Allies and Mates: An American Soldier with the Australians and New Zealanders in Vietnam 1966-1967, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
Here's something I learned the hard way: The very best time of year to start off with accounting software is the beginning of the financial year (1 July for most Aussie businesses, and 1 April for most Kiwi businesses).
ref:
2010, Veechi Curtis, Lynley Averis, Bookkeeping For Dummies, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
For example, if you buy US dollars (USD) using Australian dollars (AUD) and the Aussie dollar falls, you can then sell your US dollars and you will have made money as you will have more Aussie dollars than you started with.
ref:
2011, Wiley Trading Guide, volume 2, John Wiley & Sons Inc, page 153
type:
quotation
text:
They′re the ‘Almost Aussies’ who embrace their new culture with a vengeance – some becoming more Aussie than Aussies.
ref:
2008, Lois Nicholls, Aussie, Actually, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
You couldn't get more Aussie than the cast he chose—or their cars. The goodies drive Holdens and the baddies cruise around in a big, grunting, chocolate-brown Monaro.
ref:
2008, Janet Fife-Yeomans, Heath: A Family's Tale, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
‘I'm a perfectionist, mate,’ he said, his accent becoming noticeably more Aussie, as it always did in private.
ref:
2010, Quintin Jardine, Screen Savers, unnumbered page
type:
quotation
text:
'Every fucking aussie. Go to Cronulla Beach Sunday for some Leb and wog bashing Aussie Pride ok.'
ref:
2015, Johnny Lieu, “Cronulla Riots: What happened on one of Australia's darkest days”, in Mashable
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Australian.
senses_topics:
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3125 | word:
jack
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jack (plural jacks)
forms:
form:
jacks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
jack
etymology_text:
table
Inherited from Middle English jakke, from Anglo-Norman jacke, Middle French jaque, jacque, from jacques (“peasant”), from the proper name Jacques. Compare jacquerie.
senses_examples:
text:
jack of plate (armor made up of small metal plates sewn between layers of cloth, similar to a brigandine)
text:
jack of mail
text:
padded jack
text:
Their horsemen are with jacks for most part clad, / Their horses are both swift of course and strong, / They run on horseback with a slender gad, / And like a speare, but that it is more long.
ref:
1591, John Harington, translating Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, x. 73 (quoted in e.g. 1822, Robert Nares, A Glossary, page 186)
text:
threescore men in jacks or light coats of mail
ref:
1766, Walter Harris, The history and antiquities of the city of Dublin
type:
quotation
text:
The aketon, gambeson, vambasium, and jack were military vestments, calculated for the defence of the body, differing little from each other, except in their names, their materials and construction were nearly the same, the authorities quoted in the notes, shew they were all composed of many folds of linen, stuffed with cotton, wool or hair, quilted, and commonly covered with leather, made of buck or doe skin.
ref:
1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
senses_topics:
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3126 | word:
jack
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jack (plural jacks)
forms:
form:
jacks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
jack
etymology_text:
Transferative use of the personal name Jack.
senses_examples:
text:
After Dinner they frisk away to some known Place of Rendezvous, where (at Night) every Jack has his Jill and every Jill has her Jack.
ref:
1723, The New-England Courant, volume 80
type:
quotation
text:
When Wardell arrived on the scene, they were surprised to find that he was unshaven, and did not look too happy. One of them remarked: "The 'Jacks' (detectives) are after you."
ref:
1935, Bernard O'Donnell, The trials of Mr. Justice Avory, page 219
type:
quotation
text:
'I'd like you to meet DCI Henry Christie,' FB was saying. The older of the two jacks reached forward and gave Henry's right paw a quick tug.
ref:
2013, Nick Oldham, Big City Jacks
type:
quotation
text:
I hope to God his theories will not unman him in action, that he will not be musing and refining when he should be leading the Jacks […]
ref:
1855, William Delafield Arnold, Oakfield: Or, Fellowship in the East, page 280
type:
quotation
text:
Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap
To kiss the tender inward of thy hand,
Whilst my poor lips, which should that harvest reap,
At the wood's boldness by thee blushing stand!
ref:
1609, Shakespeare, “Sonnet 128”, in Edward Bliss Reed, editor, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Yale University Press, published 1923, lines 1–14
type:
quotation
text:
[W]hat the devil makes you so dull, Letitia? I thought to have found you popping about as brisk as the jacks of your harpsichord.
ref:
1780, Hannah Cowley, The Belle's Stratagem, I.4
type:
quotation
text:
In the virginal, an upright piece of wood fixed to the key-lever and fitted with a quill which plucked the string as the jack rose when the key was pressed down. Here used as "key."
ref:
1923, Charles Talbut Onions, “Notes”, in Edward Bliss Reed, editor, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Yale University Press, Note 128.5
type:
quotation
text:
She used a jack to lift her car and changed the tire.
text:
telephone jack
type:
example
text:
He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.
ref:
1820-25, Charles Lamb, in Essays of Elia (1830)
text:
like an uninstructed bowler, so to speak, who thinks to attain the jack, by delivering his bowl straight forward upon it
ref:
1822, Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak
type:
quotation
text:
To a pound of sugar put a jack of water.
ref:
1747, Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy
type:
quotation
text:
a heron when seeing a deer attracted by the jack
ref:
1930, Tappan Gregory, Deer at Night in the North Woods
type:
quotation
text:
First off Regan carried fifteen grand, packed it in his clothes all the time. Real money, they tell me. Not just a top card and a bunch of hay. That's a lot of jack (or jack-shit) […].
ref:
1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
Angels come from everywhere with lots of jack, and when you lose it, there's no attack. Where could you get money that you don't give back? Let's go on with the show
ref:
1946, Irving Berlin (lyrics and music), “There's No Business Like Show Business”
type:
quotation
text:
[A] quart of raisin jack was divided between us with the result that tha day proper (after the night before) was spent very quietly, watered and Bromo-Seltzered, with amusing anecdotes occasionally sprouting from towelled head to towelled head.
ref:
1920, Hart Crane, letter, 14 April
text:
You haven't done jack. Get up and get this room cleaned up right now!
type:
example
text:
Sergeant Albrecht: Hey, c'mon, read the file! Shelly Webster, held on for 30 hours in intensive care and, her body finally just gave up. I saw it man, I couldn't do jack for her.
ref:
1994, The Crow, spoken by Sergeant Albrecht (Ernie Hudson), Miramax
type:
quotation
text:
She didn't know what he was doing on the Darvish farm, or how long he'd been there, or how long he planned to stay. She didn't even know if it was his plane. In other words, jack, Mira thought, in a spike of furious resentment against herself.
ref:
2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
Cottontails were taken along the creeks, under the willows. Their flesh was preferable to that of the jacks[…]"
ref:
1932, Isabel T. Kelly, “Ethnography of the Surprise Valley Paiute”, in University of California Publications in California Archaeology an Ethnography, volume 31, number 3, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
Usually a jack that makes male flowers has only one main leaf (right), while female plants have two. […] The specific taxonomy of Jack-in-the Pulpit, a member of the Arum Family (Araceae), is rather up in the air. Some botanists believe all jacks are just one species, Arisaema triphyllum, while others claim there are as many as three: A. triphyllum, A. atrorubens, and A. stewardsonii.
ref:
2003 May 1, “Is that “Jack” in the Pulpit”, in Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History
type:
quotation
text:
In fact, most male Jacks are under 14 inches tall. Most Jacks over 14 inches tend to be Jills.
ref:
2013 January 6, “Jack-in-the-Pulpit, and Jill”, in Eat the Weeds
type:
quotation
text:
Lifting the flap at the top of the spathe reveals our slender and round-headed friend "Jack," known better to botanists as the spadix.
ref:
2003 May 1, “Is that “Jack” in the Pulpit”, in Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History
type:
quotation
text:
On every kid’s list of favourite plants is our quirky Jack-in-the-pulpit with its green, red or purple spadices (the Jacks) and hooded green-, red- or almost black-striped spathes (the pulpits).
ref:
2017 May 24, Stephen Westcott-Gratton, “Purple pulpits and trilliums”, in Gardenmaking
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A man.
A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.
A man.
A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.
A man.
A sailor.
A man.
A policeman or detective; (Australia) a military policeman.
A man.
A manual laborer.
A man.
A lumberjack.
A man.
A sepoy.
A device or utensil.
A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.
A device or utensil.
Each of a series of blocks in a harpsichord or the earlier virginal, communicating the action of the key to the quill; sometime also, a hopper in a modern piano.
A device or utensil.
A support for wood being sawn; a sawhorse or sawbuck.
A device or utensil.
A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.
A device or utensil.
A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre.
A device or utensil.
Any of various levers for raising or lowering the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles in a knitting machine or stocking frame.
A device or utensil.
A wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
A device or utensil.
A grating device used to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine; a heck box.
A device or utensil.
A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves a carding machine, in the preparation of yarn.
A device or utensil.
A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.
A non-tool object or thing.
A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack.
A non-tool object or thing.
The lowest court card in a deck of standard playing cards, ranking between the 10 and queen, with an image of a knave or pageboy on it.
A non-tool object or thing.
A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball.
A non-tool object or thing.
A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel.
A non-tool object or thing.
A measure of liquid corresponding to a quarter of a pint.
A non-tool object or thing.
A fake coin designed to look like a sovereign.
A non-tool object or thing.
A jack crosstree.
A non-tool object or thing.
A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
A non-tool object or thing.
A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night.
A non-tool object or thing.
Money, cash.
A non-tool object or thing.
A strong alcoholic liquor, especially home-distilled or illicit.
A non-tool object or thing.
Nothing, jack shit.
A non-tool object or thing.
The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.
A non-tool object or thing.
A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
A plant or animal.
A pike, especially when young.
A plant or animal.
A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.
A plant or animal.
Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
A plant or animal.
A jackrabbit.
A plant or animal.
A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.
A plant or animal.
Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
A plant or animal.
Plant in the genus Arisaema, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit, and capitalized Jack.
A plant or animal.
Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).
A plant or animal.
Plant of the genus Emex, also considered synonymous to Rumex, if not then containing two species lesser jack and little jack for Emex spinosa syn. Rumex spinosus, Australian English three-corner jack and prickly jack for Emex australis syn. Rumex hypogaeus.
senses_topics:
business
mining
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
card-games
games
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
games
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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3127 | word:
jack
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jack (third-person singular simple present jacks, present participle jacking, simple past and past participle jacked)
forms:
form:
jacks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jacking
tags:
participle
present
form:
jacked
tags:
participle
past
form:
jacked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
jack
etymology_text:
Transferative use of the personal name Jack.
senses_examples:
text:
He jacked the car so that he could replace the brake pads.
type:
example
text:
Large cranes were virtually non-existent in the areas I worked with this truck, so we jacked everything on and off[.]
ref:
2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
If you want to jack your stats you just write off failures as invalid results.
type:
example
text:
Fruit of the orchard has been "jacked" these many generations, with Plymouth Rockers putting the hard cider barrel down into the ground to freeze, and […]
ref:
1941, Esquire, volume 15, numbers 1-3, page 176
type:
quotation
text:
The potency of a jacked beverage depends on the temperature applied to the original beverage; the colder the liquor, the more water can be frozen out […]. In New England, where this technique was historically used, people could get applejack to around 30 percent alcohol […].
ref:
2010, Scott Mansfield, Strong Waters: A Simple Guide to Making Beer, Wine, Cider ...
type:
quotation
text:
Someone jacked my car last night!
type:
example
text:
A kid in a M3's getting jacked right in front of me
ref:
1993, “Just Another Day”, in Black Reign, performed by Queen Latifah
type:
quotation
text:
Now I'm in a new whip counting the big stack / Yellow-gold chain and the diamonds are black / Jack me? Nah, you don't wanna do that
ref:
2014, Skepta, Jme (lyrics and music), “That's Not Me” (track 10), in Konnichiwa, performed by Skepta featuring Jme
type:
quotation
text:
I don't even care about mine, I can get my shit off while jacking in the shower.
ref:
2017, Diamond Johnson, Finding My Way Back to Love 2, Sullivan Group Publishing
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To physically raise using a jack.
To raise or increase.
To increase the potency of an alcoholic beverage similarly to distillation by chilling it to below the freezing point of water, removing the water ice crystals that form, and leaving the still-liquid alcoholic portion.
To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone).
To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
To jack off, to masturbate.
To fight.
To jerk or move by jerking; to remove or move (something).
senses_topics:
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3128 | word:
jack
word_type:
adj
expansion:
jack (comparative more jack, superlative most jack)
forms:
form:
more jack
tags:
comparative
form:
most jack
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
jack
etymology_text:
Transferative use of the personal name Jack.
senses_examples:
text:
In the end, black and white were both crawling on the ground in reconciliation. Both saying that they were plain jack of each other.
ref:
2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 78
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Tired, disillusioned; fed up (with).
senses_topics:
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3129 | word:
jack
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jack (plural jacks)
forms:
form:
jacks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
jack
etymology_text:
From Portuguese jaca (“jackfruit”), from Malayalam ചക്ക (cakka).
senses_examples:
text:
A mock living burial of the principal performer, who is placed in a pit, which is covered with planks, on the top of which a sacrifice is performed, with a fire kindled with jack wood (Artocarpus integrifolia) and a plant called erinna.
ref:
1909, Edgur Thurston, Castes and Tribes of Southern India, page 437
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The edible fruit of the Asian tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus); also the tree itself.
The related tree Mangifera caesia.
senses_topics:
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3130 | word:
jack
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jack (plural jacks)
forms:
form:
jacks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
jack
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The year before ('76) Kingman had 37 jacks with only 502 PAs. Is that the limit?
ref:
2001 October 8, Ray Dames, “Re: McGwire's Year”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Me three. I never have quite understood all the "three true outcomes" fetish around here. I mean, I know that building an offense around walks and 3-run jacks embodies the Sabermetric Virtues, and especially in today's conditions that's the way to win, but man, it sure leads to some slow, boring games.
ref:
2002 April 18, Perry, “Re: To all you Oakland A's fans...”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
3-run jacks are just another tool in a team's chest. The goal is to make the playoffs, then win at least one more game than your opponent each round. And repeat next year, and the year after that, and...
ref:
2004 January 18, Terrell Miller, “Re: Does playing for the 3-run home run really help you win championships?”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A home run.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
3131 | word:
jack
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jack (third-person singular simple present jacks, present participle jacking, simple past and past participle jacked)
forms:
form:
jacks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jacking
tags:
participle
present
form:
jacked
tags:
participle
past
form:
jacked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
jack
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
An excellent piece of work, Wayne thought, so good in fact, he wasn’t surprised when Bailey walked to the plate and on the first pitch jacked the ball far into the parking lot outside the left-field fence for a tournament winning homerun.
ref:
1986, Arete: The Journal of Sport Literature, volume 4, Sport Literature Association
type:
quotation
text:
Therefore, even though Vizquel is certainly not a power hitter, at times he will try to jack the ball, perhaps pulling it with just enough oomph to carry down the line for a homer.
ref:
2004, Wayne Stewart, Hitting Secrets of the Pros: Big League Sluggers Reveal the Tricks of Their Trade, McGraw-Hill Professional, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
Maybe he hung a curve ball to somebody and they jacked it out of the park on him and he wasn’t upset about it.
ref:
a. 2009, Jim McManus, quoted in T.J. Lewis, A View from the Mound: My Father’s Life in Baseball, Lulu.com (publisher, 2008), page 107
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
3132 | word:
quadruped
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quadruped (plural quadrupeds)
forms:
form:
quadrupeds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French quadrupède, from Middle French, from Latin stem of quadrupēs (“four-footed, a four-footed animal”), from quadri- (“four-”) + stem of pes (“foot”). Alternatively analyzable as quadru- + -ped.
senses_examples:
text:
Bradshaw knew nothing of the 'wind of change' that was coming in a century's time, so he contented himself with an exposition on the Vale of the White Horse, "deriving its singular denomination from the gigantic carving of that useful quadruped, on a high chalky hill beyond".
ref:
2023 February 22, Stephen Roberts, “Reading... between the lines... to Wales”, in RAIL, number 977, page 56
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A four-footed or four-legged animal.
A mammal ambulating on all fours.
senses_topics:
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3133 | word:
parallel
word_type:
adj
expansion:
parallel (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
parallel
etymology_text:
From Middle French parallèle, borrowed from Latin parallelus.
senses_examples:
text:
The horizontal lines on my notebook paper are parallel.
type:
example
text:
the instrument held with its plane roughly parallel to the equinoctial or celestial equato
ref:
1911, William Robert Martin, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Navigation
type:
quotation
text:
The two railway lines are parallel.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: concurrent
text:
a parallel algorithm
type:
example
text:
the parallel lives of two citizens
type:
example
text:
parallel universe
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Equally distant from one another at all points.
Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".
Either not intersecting, or coinciding.
Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.
Analogous, similar, comparable.
Coexisting but normally not interacting with the regular reality.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction |
3134 | word:
parallel
word_type:
adv
expansion:
parallel (comparative more parallel, superlative most parallel)
forms:
form:
more parallel
tags:
comparative
form:
most parallel
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
parallel
etymology_text:
From Middle French parallèle, borrowed from Latin parallelus.
senses_examples:
text:
The road runs parallel to the canal.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
With a parallel relationship.
senses_topics:
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3135 | word:
parallel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
parallel (plural parallels)
forms:
form:
parallels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
parallel
etymology_text:
From Middle French parallèle, borrowed from Latin parallelus.
senses_examples:
text:
lines that from their parallel decline
ref:
1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary
type:
quotation
text:
The 31st parallel passes through the center of my town.
type:
example
text:
Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of a set of parallel lines.
Direction conformable to that of another line.
A line of latitude.
An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel.
Something identical or similar in essential respects.
A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity.
One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress.
A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines, used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.
senses_topics:
geography
natural-sciences
government
military
politics
war
media
printing
publishing |
3136 | word:
parallel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
parallel (third-person singular simple present parallels, present participle paralleling or (UK, nonstandard) parallelling, simple past and past participle paralleled or (UK, nonstandard) parallelled)
forms:
form:
parallels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
paralleling
tags:
participle
present
form:
parallelling
tags:
UK
nonstandard
participle
present
form:
paralleled
tags:
participle
past
form:
paralleled
tags:
past
form:
parallelled
tags:
UK
nonstandard
participle
past
form:
parallelled
tags:
UK
nonstandard
past
wikipedia:
parallel
etymology_text:
From Middle French parallèle, borrowed from Latin parallelus.
senses_examples:
text:
Archaic covered bridges lingered fearsomely out of the past in pockets of the hills, and the half-abandoned railway track paralleling the river seemed to exhale a nebulously visible air of desolation.
ref:
1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 6, in The Whisperer in Darkness
type:
quotation
text:
Racing on, we parallel the M5 doing 95mph, according to the app on my smartphone.
ref:
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
Although its spokesmen do not hesitate to parallel their oppression to that of blacks, the gay male community has chosen to ignore the voices of black gay men.
ref:
1984 April 14, Reginald Shepherd, “White Men's Black Men”, in Gay Community News, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
These scholars argue that gender and sexual identity are like nature and the environment; they parallel the queer/performance connection to the environmental/performance connection. I consider, instead, how all these categories actively interact and overlap.
ref:
2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 119
type:
quotation
text:
Who cannot parallel these stories out of his experience?
ref:
1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, III.2.2.iv
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To construct or place something parallel to something else.
Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else.
Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else.
To compare or liken something to something else.
To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, etc.
To equal; to match; to correspond to.
To produce or adduce as a parallel.
senses_topics:
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3137 | word:
ending
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ending (plural endings)
forms:
form:
endings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English endyng, endinge, endunge, from Old English endung, ġeendung (“ending”), equivalent to end + -ing. Cognate with Dutch ending (“ending”), German Endung (“ending”).
senses_examples:
text:
The book has a happy ending.
type:
example
text:
The film has an unexpected ending.
type:
example
text:
Spanish verb forms have different endings depending on the tense, mood and person.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A termination or conclusion.
The last part of something.
The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs").
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
3138 | word:
ending
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ending
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ending, endyng, endende, from Old English endiende, from Proto-Germanic *andijōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *andijōną (“to end”), equivalent to end + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of end
senses_topics:
|
3139 | word:
Strine
word_type:
name
expansion:
Strine
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a pronunciation spelling of Australian spoken with this accent. Coined by “Afferbeck Lauder” (Alastair Ardoch Morrison) and popularised with his 1965 book Let Stalk Strine. Australian from 1965.
senses_examples:
text:
Several Strine forms depend on an assumed equivalence between Strine fortis consonants and Cultivated/RP lenis ones, thus garbler mince (couple of minutes), egg jelly (actually). It is doubtful whether this reflects any real phonetic difference.
ref:
1982, J. C. Wells, “Accents of English”, in Beyond the British Isles, volume 3, page 595
type:
quotation
text:
A team at Griffith University in Bribane is working on what the university′s newspaper callls a bionic snorter. Translating into English from Strine, this is a bionic hooter, conk, bugle or nose.
ref:
1989 July 8, “Ariadne”, in New Scientist, page 120
type:
quotation
text:
Dell′Oso describes the encounter of an Asian woman with a surly bus driver whose only language is Strine (a form of Australian English, barely intelligible to many of the native-speakers).
ref:
1992, Gillian Bottomley, From Another Place: Migration and the Politics of Culture, published 2009, page 133
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Broad Australian English described as if it were a different language.
senses_topics:
|
3140 | word:
forty
word_type:
num
expansion:
forty
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fourti, feortiȝ, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”).
senses_examples:
text:
'Tis forty years this very day,
Since you and I, old girl, were married.
ref:
1825, unknown, Harrison's Amusing Picture and Poetry Book, page 35
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one.
senses_topics:
|
3141 | word:
forty
word_type:
noun
expansion:
forty (plural forties)
forms:
form:
forties
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fourti, feortiȝ, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bottle of beer containing forty fluid ounces.
senses_topics:
|
3142 | word:
forty
word_type:
adj
expansion:
forty (comparative more forty, superlative most forty)
forms:
form:
more forty
tags:
comparative
form:
most forty
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From fort + -y.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Resembling or characteristic of a fort.
senses_topics:
|
3143 | word:
Quaker
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Quaker (plural Quakers)
forms:
form:
Quakers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Religious Society of Friends
etymology_text:
From quake + -er; a name given to members of the Religious Society of Friends, supposedly by the magistrates Gervase Bennet and Nathaniel Barton, when George Fox "bade them tremble at the word of the Lord"; the term was previously applied to certain people who trembled or quaked during religious devotions.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A believer of the Quaker faith and a member of the Society of Friends, known for their pacifist views.
senses_topics:
|
3144 | word:
Quaker
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Quaker (plural Quakers)
forms:
form:
Quakers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Quake + -er
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who plays any Quake games.
senses_topics:
video-games |
3145 | word:
tomato
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tomato (countable and uncountable, plural tomatoes)
forms:
form:
tomatoes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tomato
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl, from Proto-Nahuan *tomatl. Compare tomatillo.
senses_examples:
text:
Meronym: lycopene
text:
In common parlance tomatoes are vegetables, as the Supreme Court observed long ago [see Nix v. Hedden 149 U.S. 304, 307, 13 S.Ct. 881, 882, 37 L.Ed. 745 (1893)], although botanically speaking they are actually a fruit. [26 Encyclopedia Americana 832 (Int'l. ed. 1981)]. Regardless of classification, people have been enjoying tomatoes for centuries; even Mr. Pickwick, as Dickens relates, ate his chops in "tomata" sauce.
ref:
1990, JSG Trading Corp. v. Tray-Wrap, Inc., 917 F.2d 75 (2d Cir. 1990)
text:
tomato:
text:
Look at the legs on that hot tomato!
type:
example
text:
When she left the room, I asked Robert, “Who's the tomato?” “Marisa. She's from Mexico.” He had a telltale smile on his face.
ref:
2008, Denny Durbin, Lazy Enchiladas: Redefining Success: Tasty Lessons on Love, Life, & Relationships, Bodega Publishing, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
That shirt makes you look like such a glorious tomato.
ref:
2015 https://www.bustle.com/articles/116384-19-old-fashioned-compliments-we-should-bring-back 19 Old-Fashioned Compliments We Should Bring Back]
text:
“Who's the tomato?” a cop said as Evie walked past. “Her? She's the stiff's niece,” another cop answered. Evie flinched to hear Will discussed like that. “You wanna clam up?” Malloy barked and the officers fell silent.
ref:
2020, Libba Bray, The King of Crows, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
The savory fruit of this plant, red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking.
A shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.
A desirable-looking woman.
A stupid act or person.
senses_topics:
|
3146 | word:
tomato
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tomato (third-person singular simple present tomatos, present participle tomatoing, simple past and past participle tomatoed)
forms:
form:
tomatos
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tomatoing
tags:
participle
present
form:
tomatoed
tags:
participle
past
form:
tomatoed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
tomato
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl, from Proto-Nahuan *tomatl. Compare tomatillo.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to pelt with tomatoes
to add tomatoes to (a dish)
senses_topics:
|
3147 | word:
green
word_type:
adj
expansion:
green (comparative greener, superlative greenest)
forms:
form:
greener
tags:
comparative
form:
greenest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
green
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *grōniz
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂
Proto-Germanic *-į̄
Proto-West Germanic *-ī
Proto-West Germanic *grōnī
Old English grēne
Middle English grene
English green
From Middle English grene, from Old English grēne, from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”). More at grow.
See also North Frisian green, West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, Low German grön, green, greun, German grün, Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk grøn, Swedish grön, Norwegian Bokmål grønn, Icelandic grænn.
senses_examples:
text:
The former flag of Libya is fully green.
type:
example
text:
Sally looks pretty green—is she going to be sick?
type:
example
text:
John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.
type:
example
text:
He acted like a green racehorse, plunging over his jumps, tearing to the front of the field of riders.
ref:
2008, Richard R. Rust, Renegade Champion: The Unlikely Rise of Fitzrada, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
In its most extreme formulation, this vision has devolved into a caricature of Islam as the "Green Peril" (green is the colour of Islam) advancing across the world stage, an image that echoes both the "Red Menace" of Cold War discourse and anti-Asian polemics about the "Yellow Peril".
ref:
1999, Roxanne L. Euben, Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Some politicians tried to encourage this replacement of the red with a green menace.
ref:
2006, Benjamin Soares, Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
While Bill Clinton struggled during the 1990s to bring order to a chaotic world increasingly wracked by ethnic and religious conflict, critics detected signs that a new "green" threat - radical Islam - was supplanting the earlier "red threat" - international communism - that had kept every president from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan awake at night.
ref:
2009, Douglas Little, American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945, page 317
type:
quotation
text:
a green manhood
type:
example
text:
a green wound
type:
example
text:
"How old was I when you first took me in a boat?"
"Five and you were nearly a man when I brought the fish in too green and he nearly tore the boat to pieces. Can you remember?"
ref:
1952, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
He was green with envy.
type:
example
text:
green energy
type:
example
text:
Green New Deal
type:
example
text:
As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.
ref:
2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 22, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
Oatly said it hoped Blackstone’s investment would inspire other private equity firms “to steer their collective worth of $4 trillion into green investments.”
ref:
2021 May 18, Jack Ewing, Lauren Hirsch, “The Big Money Is Going Vegan”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Following initial drying of film in a motion picture laboratory (after treatment in a hardening-fixing bath) the gelatin structure of an emulsion contracts and is permanently changed. The hardening action still continues for a time as a further small amount of residual moisture is given up. While traces of excess moisture remain, the emulsion is "green," relatively soft, […]
ref:
1947, Theatre Catalog, volume 5, page 570
type:
quotation
text:
[…] attaching pre-photographed and pre-printed footage of a focusing chart to daily film footage without taking into consideration that such film may be worn or dried out and therefore, in its plane of best focus, would not be identical to that of the green film of the daily rushes.
ref:
1961, American Cinematographer, volume 42, page 618
type:
quotation
text:
That timber is still too green to be used.
type:
example
text:
the green pound
type:
example
text:
the green lira
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: gold
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a green hue; with a hue which is of grass or leaves.
Sickly, unwell.
Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
Inexperienced.
Islamist.
Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
Overcome with envy.
Environmentally friendly.
Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.
Not fully roasted; half raw.
Of film: freshly processed by the laboratory and not yet fully physically hardened.
Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
High or too high in acidity.
Having a sexual connotation.
Having a color charge of green.
Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.
Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is only available for to read for free after an embargo period.
senses_topics:
government
politics
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
broadcasting
film
media
television
beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
academia
scholarly
sciences |
3148 | word:
green
word_type:
noun
expansion:
green (countable and uncountable, plural greens)
forms:
form:
greens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
green
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *grōniz
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂
Proto-Germanic *-į̄
Proto-West Germanic *-ī
Proto-West Germanic *grōnī
Old English grēne
Middle English grene
English green
From Middle English grene, from Old English grēne, from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”). More at grow.
See also North Frisian green, West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, Low German grön, green, greun, German grün, Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk grøn, Swedish grön, Norwegian Bokmål grønn, Icelandic grænn.
senses_examples:
text:
green:
text:
bright green :
text:
In a period of increasing industrialization and the palette of grey, brown, and black that came to dominate the modern city, greens provided a refreshing contrast, seemingly bringing the outdoors in.
ref:
2015, Alison Matthews David, Fashion Victims: The Damages of Dress Past and Present, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
How have greens sought to map an ecologically and socially sustainable future for society?
ref:
2013, Joe Smith, What Do Greens Believe?, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
I gave him my putter earlier this year in Oklahoma City. He was having trouble on the greens and I said, ‘Here, try this.’ He did, and he’s been going great guns ever since.
ref:
1964 June 16, Arnold Palmer, quotee, “All Eyes On Lema At U.S. Open This Week”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 22
type:
quotation
text:
There are eighteen holes but I dare any visitor to find more than, say, twelve fairways and seven or eight greens.
ref:
2010, Dan Jenkins, Fairways and Greens, page 233
type:
quotation
text:
To the casual cockpit observer, landing-gear operation appears to be one of the most elementary tasks we have to perform. Either the switch is up and the lights are out, or it's down and there are three greens.
ref:
1992, “How to Avoid the Most Embarrassing of Pilot Errors”, in Flying Magazine, volume 119, number 6, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
You're better of smoking the green instead cause it don't blim-burn and it's better for your head.
ref:
2003, “Soap Bar”, in The Manifesto, performed by Goldie Looking Chain
type:
quotation
text:
They see me, hoes actin like they seen a king / With that mean lean, smokin on that finest Cali green
ref:
2005, “Drive Slow”, in Late Registration, performed by Kanye West
type:
quotation
text:
Today, actors say off-handedly, 'See you on the green' or 'I'll be in the green room' without giving the expressions much thought. In Shakespeare's day, actors changed behind the stage in the 'tiring house', […]
ref:
2016, Bruce Montague, The Book of Shakespearian Useless Information
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The colour of grass and leaves; a primary additive colour midway between yellow and cyan which is evoked by light between roughly roughly 495–570 nm.
A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
The surface upon which bowls is played.
One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
A green light used as a signal.
Marijuana.
Money.
One of the three color charges for quarks.
Short for green room.
senses_topics:
government
politics
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
entertainment
lifestyle
theater |
3149 | word:
green
word_type:
verb
expansion:
green (third-person singular simple present greens, present participle greening, simple past and past participle greened)
forms:
form:
greens
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
greening
tags:
participle
present
form:
greened
tags:
participle
past
form:
greened
tags:
past
wikipedia:
green
etymology_text:
From Middle English grenen, from Old English grēnian (“to become green, flourish”), from Proto-West Germanic *grōnijan, from Proto-Germanic *grōnijōną, *grōnijaną (“to become green”), from the adjective (see above).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian gräinje, German Low German grönen, German grünen, Swedish gröna, Icelandic gróna.
senses_examples:
text:
by greening slope and singing flood
ref:
1886, John Greenleaf Whittier, Flowers in Winter
type:
quotation
text:
The newer 39-story, 1.5-million-square-foot tower occupies much of the original Shearson Garden, a larger parklet that briefly greened the construction site to be, and is remembered fondly by nearby Tribecans.
ref:
2000, AIA Guide to New York City, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
"The SNP like to talk the talk about net zero targets, but they can't walk the walk. We need a fares freeze for everyone if we want to get serious about greening the economy and a public railway run in the public interest."
ref:
2023 June 28, Conrad Landin, “Network News: Scottish 4.8% rail fares rise labelled 'bad news'”, in RAIL, number 986, page 18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
To become or grow green in colour.
To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
To become environmentally aware.
To make (something) environmentally friendly.
senses_topics:
|
3150 | word:
adjustment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
adjustment (countable and uncountable, plural adjustments)
forms:
form:
adjustments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French ajustement, or else adjust + -ment.
senses_examples:
text:
The credit card company made an adjustment to my account to waive the late fee.
type:
example
text:
When Jim graduated, he found adjustment to the working world difficult.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The action of adjusting something
The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration
The settling or balancing of a financial account
The behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
The assessment, by an insurance company, of a claim; the settlement of such a claim
senses_topics:
|
3151 | word:
cherry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cherry (plural cherries)
forms:
form:
cherries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:cherry
etymology_text:
From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), both ultimately from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). Doublet of cerise and kirsch.
senses_examples:
text:
"Well, Dangerfield, in less than an hour I'm off in search of my fortune. Jesus, I'm excited, like I was going to lose my cherry. Woke up this morning with an erection that almost touched the ceiling."
ref:
1955, J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man, France, published 1955 (France), page 39
type:
quotation
text:
Nothing stands in your way when you're a boy / Clothes always fit ya / Life is a pop of the cherry when you're a boy
ref:
1979, David Bowie, Brian Eno (lyrics and music), “Boys Keep Swinging”, in Lodger, performed by David Bowie
type:
quotation
text:
Philips—Sergeant Gerheim's black, silver-tongued House Mouse—is telling everybody about the one thousand cherries he has busted.
ref:
1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
So what bitch, I busted your cherry – / Hell fucking no, I don’t wanna git married
ref:
1986, “Short Side (Blow Job Betty)” (track 5, 6:36–6:43 from the start), in Too Short (lyrics), Raw, Uncut and X-Rated
type:
quotation
text:
Non-isomorphism is detected whenever the algorithm finds a cherry v#x5F;1#x5C;inT#x5F;1…
ref:
2004, Suleyman Cenk Sahinalp, S Muthukrishnan, Ugur Dogrusoz, Combinatorial Pattern Matching
type:
quotation
text:
Step 3: Output the tree T. The edge lengths of T are determined recursively: If (x,y) is a cherry connected to node z as in Step 2…
ref:
2005, Lior Pachter, Bernd Sturmfels, Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology
type:
quotation
text:
The Indians have to get early wickets on the morrow and they will have the option of taking the new cherry.
ref:
2000, Woorkheri Raman, Indians adopt safety first tactics, ESPNcricinfo
text:
Players are back out and it's Harmison to have first go with the cherry.
ref:
2007, Ben Dirs, England v West Indies 1st Test, BBC
type:
quotation
text:
"What do you think?" he asked as he wove through traffic, matching Sanford's speed but without the benefit of a flashing cherry on the roof of his car.
ref:
2009, Sandra Brown, Smash Cut, page 333
type:
quotation
text:
“This is a cartel operation,” Hackett said as Larson activated the dash-mounted cherry
ref:
2014 February 28, Rick Mofina, In Desperation (A Jack Gannon Novel, Book 3)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
The wood of a cherry tree.
Cherry red.
The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.
Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
A cricket ball.
A round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car.
The burning tip of a cigarette.
senses_topics:
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
3152 | word:
cherry
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cherry (comparative cherrier or more cherry, superlative cherriest or most cherry)
forms:
form:
cherrier
tags:
comparative
form:
more cherry
tags:
comparative
form:
cherriest
tags:
superlative
form:
most cherry
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
en:cherry
etymology_text:
From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), both ultimately from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). Doublet of cerise and kirsch.
senses_examples:
text:
cherry:
text:
A few years earlier, I’d restored my ’65 Mustang convertible to cherry condition—fire engine red, with matching tuck-and-roll—and I wasn’t surprised that it drew attention.
ref:
2003, John Morgan Wilson, Blind Eye, St. Martin’s Press, page 108
type:
quotation
text:
All of my action figures are cherry
ref:
2006, “White & Nerdy”, in "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics), Straight Outta Lynwood, performed by "Weird Al" Yankovic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Containing or having the taste of cherries.
Of a bright red colour; cherry red.
In excellent condition; mint condition.
senses_topics:
|
3153 | word:
bongo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bongo (plural bongos)
forms:
form:
bongos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bongo
etymology_text:
From Spanish bongo.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus.
senses_topics:
|
3154 | word:
bongo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bongo (plural bongos or bongoes)
forms:
form:
bongos
tags:
plural
form:
bongoes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bongo
etymology_text:
From United States Spanish bongó, from a Bantu language; probably Ekele boungu.
senses_examples:
text:
He's banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee.
ref:
1984, Dire Straits (band), Money for Nothing (song)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands.
senses_topics:
|
3155 | word:
bongo
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bongo (third-person singular simple present bongos, present participle bongoing, simple past and past participle bongoed)
forms:
form:
bongos
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bongoing
tags:
participle
present
form:
bongoed
tags:
participle
past
form:
bongoed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bongo
etymology_text:
From United States Spanish bongó, from a Bantu language; probably Ekele boungu.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To play the bongo drums.
Of the heart, etc.: to beat with an irregular rhythm.
To hit something rhythmically with the hands.
senses_topics:
|
3156 | word:
yak
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yak (plural yak or yaks)
forms:
form:
yak
tags:
plural
form:
yaks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Tibetan གཡག (g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ.
senses_examples:
text:
Utilization efficiency of dietary protein in the yak differs with diet composition and feeding level, age, sex, body condition score, and animal production level (e.g., growth, lactation). Researchers reported no difference between lactating and dry cows in crude protein digestibility, although lactating yak tend to consume more feed than dry yak.
ref:
2008, Scott R. R. Haskell, Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult: Ruminant, John Wiley & Sons, page 619
type:
quotation
text:
Attempts are now being made, by selection, to create a new breed of yak (the Datong yak) from such crosses. Hybridization of domestic yak with local cattle, at intermediate elevations, has been practiced for generations. The hybrids inherit some of the good characteristics from each species, but lack the adaptation of the yak to the harsh conditions at higher elevations.
ref:
2004, Wilson G. Pond, Encyclopedia of Animal Science (Print), CRC Press, page 899
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas, Mongolia, Burma, and Tibet with dark, long, and silky hair, a horse-like tail, and a full, bushy mane.
senses_topics:
|
3157 | word:
yak
word_type:
verb
expansion:
yak (third-person singular simple present yaks, present participle yakking, simple past and past participle yakked)
forms:
form:
yaks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
yakking
tags:
participle
present
form:
yakked
tags:
participle
past
form:
yakked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
tableApparently an onomatopoeia.
senses_examples:
text:
And in the last few days Clair's boundless capacity to yak about herself while Melissa listened had turned Chip against her, too.
ref:
2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
type:
quotation
text:
She'll feel better when she yaks.
ref:
1998, Tim Herlihy, The Wedding Singer, spoken by Glenn Guglia (Matthew Glave)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To talk, particularly informally but persistently; to chatter or prattle.
To vomit, usually as a result of excessive alcohol consumption.
senses_topics:
|
3158 | word:
yak
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yak (countable and uncountable, plural yaks)
forms:
form:
yaks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
tableApparently an onomatopoeia.
senses_examples:
text:
Sluggsy said indifferently, ‘You’ll be wised up come morning. Meanwhiles, howsabout shuttin’ that dumb little hashtrap of yours? All this yak is bending my ear. I want some action.
ref:
1962, Ian Fleming, chapter 9, in The Spy Who Loved Me
type:
quotation
text:
The sudden head-down butt jabbed into someone’s face, is a highly effective way of putting a stop to his yack.
ref:
1983, Nicolas Freeling, The Back of the North Wind
type:
quotation
text:
Would-be gags from would-be gagsters. And, nine chances out of ten, not a yak in the lot.
ref:
1951, Fredric Brown, Mack Reynolds, Cartoonist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A talk, particular an informal talk; chattering; gossip.
A laugh.
Vomit.
senses_topics:
|
3159 | word:
yak
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yak (plural yaks)
forms:
form:
yaks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Korean 약 (yak).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a traditional Korean flute used in court music
senses_topics:
|
3160 | word:
yak
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yak (plural yaks)
forms:
form:
yaks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Shortening.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A kayak.
senses_topics:
|
3161 | word:
yak
word_type:
noun
expansion:
yak (plural yaks)
forms:
form:
yaks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Shortening.
senses_examples:
text:
Quick cash, flip that, now I got big cash. Sit back, sip yak with a next piff yat.
ref:
2018 November 30, “Bits” (track 10), in Original Sounds, performed by Bru-C and Window Kid
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
cognac.
senses_topics:
|
3162 | word:
tennis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tennis (usually uncountable, plural tennises)
forms:
form:
tennises
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tennis
etymology_text:
From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez (second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”)).
senses_examples:
text:
“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
ref:
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court
type:
quotation
text:
We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises[…]
ref:
1918, Violet Hunt, The Last Ditch, page 95
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
A match in this sport.
An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
3163 | word:
tennis
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tennis (third-person singular simple present tennises, present participle tennising, simple past and past participle tennised)
forms:
form:
tennises
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tennising
tags:
participle
present
form:
tennised
tags:
participle
past
form:
tennised
tags:
past
wikipedia:
tennis
etymology_text:
From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez (second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”)).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To play tennis.
To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
senses_topics:
|
3164 | word:
third
word_type:
adj
expansion:
third (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
third
etymology_text:
PIE word
*tréyes
From Middle English thirde, thridde, from Old English þridda, from Proto-Germanic *þridjô, from Pre-Germanic *tretyós, a remodeling of Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós.
senses_examples:
text:
The third tree from the left is my favorite.
type:
example
text:
The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie[…]
ref:
2012 October 8, Daniel W. Patterson, The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry, UNC Press Books, page 141
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.
senses_topics:
|
3165 | word:
third
word_type:
noun
expansion:
third (countable and uncountable, plural thirds)
forms:
form:
thirds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
third
etymology_text:
PIE word
*tréyes
From Middle English thirde, thridde, from Old English þridda, from Proto-Germanic *þridjô, from Pre-Germanic *tretyós, a remodeling of Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós.
senses_examples:
text:
Jones came in third.
type:
example
text:
He ate a third of the pie. Divided by two-thirds.
type:
example
text:
Despite these uncertainties, Clarke told MPs he was convinced of the need to order trains powered by batteries. He said: "We're calling for a 'no regrets' order of battery trains because we see them always having a future. We see them being fundable, financeable, similar cost to diesel trains, and we know that however much electrification we would aspire to do, there's always going to be at least a third of the network that isn't electrified.
ref:
2023 December 27, Philip Haigh, “All eyes are on the DfT as rolling stock concerns deepen”, in RAIL, number 999, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
Now put it into third.
type:
example
text:
They sing in thirds.
type:
example
text:
The play ended with Jones standing on third.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the third position.
One of three equal parts of a whole.
The third gear of a gearbox.
An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.
third base
A handicap of one stroke every third hole.
A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme
One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. Also formerly known as a tierce.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
3166 | word:
third
word_type:
verb
expansion:
third (third-person singular simple present thirds, present participle thirding, simple past and past participle thirded)
forms:
form:
thirds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
thirding
tags:
participle
present
form:
thirded
tags:
participle
past
form:
thirded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Third person
third
etymology_text:
PIE word
*tréyes
From Middle English thirde, thridde, from Old English þridda, from Proto-Germanic *þridjô, from Pre-Germanic *tretyós, a remodeling of Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded.
To divide into three equal parts.
senses_topics:
|
3167 | word:
mikado
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mikado (countable and uncountable, plural mikados)
forms:
form:
mikados
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 御門 (mikado), from 御 (mi, “honorable”) + 門 (kado, “gate, portal”).
senses_examples:
text:
The mikados of Japan are its emperors.
type:
example
text:
Our great Mikado, virtuous man,
When he to rule our land began,
Resolved to try a plan whereby
Young men might best be steadied.
ref:
1885, Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period.
Any emperor of Japan.
A game of skill, in which identically shaped (but differently colored and valued) wooden sticks must be removed from a pile without disturbing the remaining stack.
A fabric having a stiff twill weave.
senses_topics:
history
human-sciences
sciences
|
3168 | word:
NOLA
word_type:
name
expansion:
NOLA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of New Orleans, Louisiana in the United States.
senses_topics:
|
3169 | word:
infinitive
word_type:
noun
expansion:
infinitive (plural infinitives)
forms:
form:
infinitives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
infinitive
etymology_text:
From Middle French infinitif, from Late Latin infinitivus (“unlimited, indefinite”), from Latin infinitus (“unlimited, infinite”).
senses_examples:
text:
The MANNERS of acting, in grammar called modes or moods, are four; Infinitive, Imperative, Indicative, Subjunctive or Conjunctive.
ref:
1847, J. J. P. Le Brethon, L. Sandier, Guide to the French language; especially devised for persons who wish to study that language without the assistance of a teacher. the tenth edition, revised and corrected, London, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
There are four moods, the Infinitive, Imperative, Indicative, and Subjunctive. [...] the Infinitive is used to express a thing in a general manner.
ref:
1857, Henry Tindall, A grammar and vocabulary of the Namaqua-Hottentot language, page 38
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The infinitive mood or mode (a grammatical mood).
A non-finite verb form considered neutral with respect to inflection; depending on language variously found used with auxiliary verbs, in subordinate clauses, or acting as a gerund, and often as the dictionary form.
A verbal noun formed from the infinitive of a verb.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
3170 | word:
infinitive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
infinitive (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
infinitive
etymology_text:
From Middle French infinitif, from Late Latin infinitivus (“unlimited, indefinite”), from Latin infinitus (“unlimited, infinite”).
senses_examples:
text:
INFINITIVE MOOD or MANNER.
To Have, Avoir.
ref:
1847, J. J. P. Le Brethon, L. Sandier, Guide to the French language; especially devised for persons who wish to study that language without the assistance of a teacher. the tenth edition, revised and corrected, London, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
In English there are four moods:–1. The Infinitive Mood. 2. The Indicative Mood. 3. the Imperative Mood. 4. The Subjunctive Mood.
ref:
1858, C. P. Mason, English grammar; including the principles of grammatical analysis, London, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
[…] to search out in some higher region of infinitive space a spot where it was impossible for defilement to follow them […]
ref:
a. 1823, Cunningham's Sermons (quoted in 1823, The Edinburgh Christian Instructor, volume 23, page 328)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Formed with the infinitive.
Unlimited; not bounded or restricted; undefined.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
3171 | word:
interjection
word_type:
noun
expansion:
interjection (plural interjections)
forms:
form:
interjections
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
interjection
etymology_text:
From Middle English interjeccioun, from Old French interjection (13th century), from Latin interiectiōnem, accusative singular of interiectiō (“throwing or placing between; interjection”), perfect passive participle of intericiō (“throw or place between”), from inter (“between”) + iaciō (“throw”). Displaced Old English betwēoxāworpennes (literally “between-thrown-out-ness”), a calque of the Latin.
senses_examples:
text:
Some evidence confirming our suspicions that topicalised and dislocated constituents occupy different sentence positions comes from Greenberg (1984). He notes that in colloquial speech the interjection man can occur after dislocated constituents, but not after topicalised constituents: cf.
(21) (a) Bill, man, I really hate him (dislocated NP)
(21) (b) ^✽Bill, man, I really hate (topicalised NP)
ref:
1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 10, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 533
type:
quotation
text:
Mnuchin, asked about climate change in a CNBC interview after his comments about Thunberg, argued there were bigger issues that also needed to be addressed. When a host noted clean air rules as an example of something that might be more urgent, Mnuchin ignored the interjection.
ref:
2020 January 23, Philip Bump, “Mnuchin said Thunberg needed to study economics before offering climate proposals. So we talked to an economist.”, in Washington Post
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.
An interruption; something interjected
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
3172 | word:
contact lens
word_type:
noun
expansion:
contact lens (plural contact lenses)
forms:
form:
contact lenses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thin lens, made of flexible or rigid plastic, that is placed directly on to the eye to correct vision, used as an alternative to spectacles, or, if coloured, to change one's eye color cosmetically.
senses_topics:
|
3173 | word:
German
word_type:
noun
expansion:
German (countable and uncountable, plural Germans)
forms:
form:
Germans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Germānus, Germānī (“the peoples of Germānia”), as distinct from Gauls (in the writings of Caesar and Tacitus), and of uncertain ultimate origin (possibly Celtic/Gaulish).
Not related to german (“closely related”) or germane (from the Latin adjective germānus, through Old French).
Attested since at least 1520. Replaced the older terms Almain and Dutch (from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz) in English. Besides cognates of German, Almain, and Dutch, two other categories of words for the Germans in other languages are cognates of Saxon and descendants of Proto-Slavic *němьcь; see those entries for more.
The surname is generally from the noun, though sometimes confused with Herman, Hermann under Russian influence. As a German surname, Americanized from Germann. Compare Germán, Germain, Jerman.
senses_examples:
text:
Rome was sacked by Germans and the Western Roman Empire collapsed.
type:
example
text:
[…] tie them tightly in a thickly floured cloth, and boil them for three hours and a half. We can recommend this as a remarkably light small rich pudding : it may be served with German, wine, or punch sauce.
ref:
1858, Eliza Acton, Modern Cookery in All Its Branches: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, for the Use of Private Families : in a Series of Receipts, which Have Been Strictly Tested, and are Given with the Most Minute Exactness : to which are Added Directions for Carving, Garnishing, and Setting Out the Table, with a Table of Weights and Measures, page 279
type:
quotation
text:
The wine list harbours some great bottles, mature clarets and Burgundies as well as a clutch of fine Germans (gold-dust these days in restaurants) […]
ref:
1996, Jim Ainsworth, Passport's Guide to Britain's Best Restaurants
type:
quotation
text:
In my German, they calling me a baller (skrr)
ref:
2021 May 21, “Plugged In Freestyle”, Big Tobz in Big Tobz & Blittz (lyrics), Fumez The Engineer (music), 0:13–0:16
type:
quotation
roman:
Got me feeling like Özil
text:
There are some 32 different terms for prison officers, from the humorously affectionate kanga(rhyming slang:kangaroo = screw) and the variants Scooby-Doo and Dr. Who via the mildly confrontational German (as if still the enemy over 50 years after World War II!) to the outright abuse of shit-parcel.
ref:
1996, Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, Waterside Press
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Germany; a person of German citizenship or nationality.
A member of the Germanic ethnic group which is the most populous ethnic group in Germany; a person of German descent.
A member of a Germanic tribe.
A German wine.
A size of type between American and Saxon, 1+¹⁄₂-point type.
A Germany-produced car, a “German whip”.
A prison warder.
senses_topics:
media
printing
publishing
|
3174 | word:
German
word_type:
name
expansion:
German
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Germānus, Germānī (“the peoples of Germānia”), as distinct from Gauls (in the writings of Caesar and Tacitus), and of uncertain ultimate origin (possibly Celtic/Gaulish).
Not related to german (“closely related”) or germane (from the Latin adjective germānus, through Old French).
Attested since at least 1520. Replaced the older terms Almain and Dutch (from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz) in English. Besides cognates of German, Almain, and Dutch, two other categories of words for the Germans in other languages are cognates of Saxon and descendants of Proto-Slavic *němьcь; see those entries for more.
The surname is generally from the noun, though sometimes confused with Herman, Hermann under Russian influence. As a German surname, Americanized from Germann. Compare Germán, Germain, Jerman.
senses_examples:
text:
Meronyms: Low German (Plattdeutsch), High German
text:
German has three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Indo-European (Indo-Germanic) language, primarily spoken in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, South Tyrol, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and a small part of Belgium.
A surname.
A number of townships in the United States, listed under German Township.
senses_topics:
|
3175 | word:
German
word_type:
adj
expansion:
German (comparative more German, superlative most German or Germanest)
forms:
form:
more German
tags:
comparative
form:
most German
tags:
superlative
form:
Germanest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Germānus, Germānī (“the peoples of Germānia”), as distinct from Gauls (in the writings of Caesar and Tacitus), and of uncertain ultimate origin (possibly Celtic/Gaulish).
Not related to german (“closely related”) or germane (from the Latin adjective germānus, through Old French).
Attested since at least 1520. Replaced the older terms Almain and Dutch (from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz) in English. Besides cognates of German, Almain, and Dutch, two other categories of words for the Germans in other languages are cognates of Saxon and descendants of Proto-Slavic *němьcь; see those entries for more.
The surname is generally from the noun, though sometimes confused with Herman, Hermann under Russian influence. As a German surname, Americanized from Germann. Compare Germán, Germain, Jerman.
senses_examples:
text:
In Prussia, always the most progressive of the German states during the Weimar years and a stronghold of the two parties, Jews could be found in virtually all administrative departments […].
ref:
2001, Donald L. Niewyk, The Jews in Weimar Germany, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
Her German husband has blond hair.
type:
example
text:
If Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999.
ref:
2005 May 23, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism, Cambridge University Press, page 182
type:
quotation
text:
Goths, a German tribe, 9; allied with other tribes against Rome, 39; …
ref:
1889, Theodore S. Fay, The three Germanys: glimpses into their history, vol. II, p. 1270 (inside the index)
text:
Meronyms: Low German, High German
text:
Because the instructions were German, Yves couldn't read them.
type:
example
text:
In this manner there existed, about the time of the Reformation, three grand divisions of the German language, viz. the Upper German (Ober Deutsch), the Low German (Nieder Deutsch, or Platt Deutsch), and lastly the High German (Hoch Deutsch).
ref:
1816, George Henry Noehden, A Grammar of the German Language, 3rd edition, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
To trace its progress, it will be necessary to enter into detail, and to examine the German language in its two great divisions, the Low and High German.
ref:
1838, Joseph Bosworth, A Dictionary of the Anglo-saxon Language, page xiii
type:
quotation
text:
This volume is intended to provide a survey of the linguistic characteristics of modern German dialects …. These are defined geographically as those within the borders of the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic, Austria, the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, the German-speaking part of Switzerland, and Alsace in France ([..]).
ref:
1990, Charles V.J. Russ, Introduction, in: Charles V.J. Russ (ed.), The Dialects of Modern German: A Linguistic Survey, p. xviii (note: the work covers Frisian, Low and High German dialects)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to the nation of Germany.
Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Germany; to people of German descent.
Of, in or relating to the German language.
senses_topics:
|
3176 | word:
too
word_type:
adv
expansion:
too (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English to (“also, in addition to”), from Old English tō (“furthermore, also, besides”), adverbial use of preposition tō (“to, into”). The sense of "in addition, also" deriving from the original meaning of "apart, separately" (compare Old English prefix tō- (“apart”)). Doublet of to; see there for more.
senses_examples:
text:
The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.
ref:
2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
There has been a cutback in federal subsidies. Rates have been increasing too.
type:
example
text:
Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
ref:
2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
[…]purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.
ref:
1620, Giovanni Bocaccio, translated by John Florio, The Decameron, Containing an Hundred Pleaſant Nouels: Wittily Diſcourſed, Betweene Seuen Honourable Ladies, and Three Noble Gentlemen, Isaac Iaggard, Nouell 8, The Eighth Day
type:
quotation
text:
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
text:
She doesn't talk too much. I'm not too sure about this.
type:
example
text:
You're not old enough yet. ― I am too!
type:
example
text:
You can't jump that fence. ― Can too jump it!
type:
example
text:
We haven't been mean to you. ― Have too, plenty of times
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Likewise.
Also; in addition.
To an excessive degree; over; more than enough.
To a high degree, very.
Used to contradict a negative assertion with present and simple past forms of be, do, and auxiliary verbs
Used for emphasis, without reference to any previous statement.
senses_topics:
|
3177 | word:
tiger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
forms:
form:
tigers
tags:
plural
form:
tigress
tags:
feminine
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English tygre, in part from Old English tigras (pl.), in part from Anglo-Norman tigre, both from Latin tigris, from Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris), from Iranian (compare Avestan 𐬙𐬌𐬔𐬭𐬌 (tigri, “arrow”), 𐬙𐬌𐬖𐬭𐬀 (tiγra, “pointed”)). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Compare English stick.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: tigress
text:
The heraldic tiger is a mythical beast, quite unlike a real tiger which is described in heraldry as a Bengal tiger. The ordinary tiger has no stripes, has a horn protruding from its nose, has tusks like a boar and a tufted mane, and has a lion's tail instead of a tiger's.
ref:
1968, Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were 'schelms' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about.
ref:
1907, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld, Longmans, published 1976, page 251
type:
quotation
text:
In this scenario, the growth rates are higher for the economic tigers than for the other economies.
ref:
2000, Jagdish Handa, Monetary Economics, Psychology Press, page 709
type:
quotation
text:
Then came the 2008 credit turmoil and ensuing economic slump, which not only belittled the huge economic and social gains of the various Baltic and Celtic Tigers, as well as of several former communist nations of Central Europe.
ref:
2009, Fabrizio Tassinari, Why Europe Fears Its Neighbors, ABC-CLIO, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
Once colonial or settler rule ended, such enterprises either lost the crutches of state support or became “white elephants,” draining resources from the wider economy. This was an important factor holding back the emergence of African tigers.
ref:
2014, Emmanuel Akyeampong, Robert H. Bates, Nathan Nunn, James Robinson, Africa's Development in Historical Perspective, Cambridge University Press, page 287
type:
quotation
text:
Don't […] Tell your roommate that you heard the walls shaking all night, and it sounds like he's a real tiger in the sack.
ref:
2010, Jeff Wilser, The Maxims of Manhood
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
A male tiger; as opposed to a tigress.
A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.
A leopard.
A relatively small country or group of countries with a fast-growing economy.
A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
A ferocious, bloodthirsty and audacious person.
A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
A tiger moth in the family Arctiidae.
A tiger beetle.
Any of the three Australian species of black-and-yellow striped dragonflies of the genus Ictinogomphus.
A tiger butterfly in tribe Danaini, especially subtribe Danaina
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
|
3178 | word:
tiger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tiger (plural tigers)
forms:
form:
tigers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the mascot of Princeton (a tiger), which led to early cheerleaders calling out "Tiger" at the end of a cheer for the Princeton team.
senses_examples:
text:
He spoke with a very strong Scotch accent, and is by no means a graceful orator, but he produced througout a most favourable impression upon all his hearers, and especially upon the students, one of whom shouted as the speaker closed, 'Long Live PRESIDENT M'COSH!' and then proposed three cheers, which were given with a will, followed by the usual tiger and ' rocket.'
ref:
1868, Punch: Or the London Charivari - Volume 55, page 231
type:
quotation
text:
. . . every blue coat in the audience sprang to his feet, with three times three and a tiger.
ref:
1941, Margaret Leech, Reveille in Washington
type:
quotation
text:
One Brooklyn military company has a “tiger” composed of a provincial expression borrowed from the farmers. When drawled out by a hundred throats the phrase "I-wanter-know!" always produces a laugh.
ref:
2008, D. C. Beard, The Outdoor Handy Book: For Playground, Field, and Forest, page 413
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer.
senses_topics:
|
3179 | word:
percent
word_type:
adv
expansion:
percent (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
percent
etymology_text:
From New Latin per centum (“by the hundred”).
senses_examples:
text:
Diane Watson has had a distinguished career in education and politics, and last year was elected to the House of Representatives, winning 75 percent of the vote in her Congressional district.
ref:
2002 May 8, Leon Jaroff, Time
type:
quotation
text:
In Sichuan the rates were much higher. In Kaixian county, a close examination by a team sent by the provincial party committee at the time concluded that in Fengle commune, where 17 per cent of the population had perished in less than a year, up to 65 per cent of the victims had died because they were beaten, punished with food deprivation or forced into committing suicide.
ref:
2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine, Bloomsbury, →OCLC, →OL, pages 297–298
type:
quotation
text:
Twelve percent of the world’s population now relies directly or indirectly on the fisheries industry.
ref:
2016 July 7, Arthur Neslen, The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion).
senses_topics:
|
3180 | word:
percent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
percent (plural percent or percents)
forms:
form:
percent
tags:
plural
form:
percents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
percent
etymology_text:
From New Latin per centum (“by the hundred”).
senses_examples:
text:
only a small percent attain the top ranks
type:
example
text:
And from 1966, under Regulation Q, there was a ceiling of 5.5 per cent on their deposit rates, a quarter of a per cent more than banks were allowed to pay.
ref:
2008, Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money, Penguin, page 254
type:
quotation
text:
[…]Several stocks in the Three Per Cents and Three Per Cents Reduced to be transferred into the name and to the credit of the prosecutor, without any authority to him (the traverser) to sell, negotiate, transfer or pledge the said 9000l. Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Annuities.
ref:
1848, Edward W. Cox, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law, editor, Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the Courts of England and Ireland: Volume II 1868 to 1848, page 371
type:
quotation
text:
Why, from the pleasant and businesslike manner in which the transaction is carried out, it might be a large purchase in the three per cents. Yet what a piece of work a man makes of his first "pop."
ref:
1886, Jerome K. Jerome, “On Being Hard Up”, in Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
type:
quotation
text:
picking up on a phrase that was used as early as 1752, Benjamin Disraeli famously referred to the “sweet simplicity of the three percents in his novel Endymion (1880) because of the reliable dividend this form of investment provided.
ref:
2018, Nancy Henry, Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain: Cultures of Investment, page 33
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred).
One part per hundred; one percent, hundredth.
The percent sign, %.
An annuity or security with a certain fixed and guaranteed annual percentage rate of return or percentage dividend.
senses_topics:
|
3181 | word:
percent
word_type:
prep_phrase
expansion:
percent
forms:
wikipedia:
percent
etymology_text:
From New Latin per centum (“by the hundred”).
senses_examples:
text:
By how many percent did the cancer survival rate for breast cancer increase by 2008?
ref:
2014, Alan Tussy, Diane Koenig, Basic Mathematics for College Students with Early Integers, page 637
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Per hundred.
senses_topics:
|
3182 | word:
Englishman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Englishman (plural Englishmen)
forms:
form:
Englishmen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
DanTDM
David Attenborough
etymology_text:
From Middle English Englishman, Inglishman, from Old English Englisċman, Englisċmon, corresponding to English + -man. Compare Old Norse Englismaðr (“Englishman”).
senses_examples:
text:
the Ynglishe men had great vyctorye, for there was taken and slayne a greate nombar, and there was slayne the lorde Morley and Englishe man.
ref:
c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais, London, published 1846
type:
quotation
text:
To see twenty or thirty female Englishmen of full regulation-size dancing a ballet, is an overpowering luxury.
ref:
1853, Saunterings in and about London. By Max Schlesinger. The English edition by Otto Wenckstern, London, page 278
type:
quotation
text:
All Englishmen, male and female, young and old, are for the purposes of this establishment considered clean.
ref:
1873, George Webbe Dasent, Jest an Earnest. A Collection of Essays and Reviews. In two Volumes. Vol. I, London, page 156
type:
quotation
text:
Rest assured it cannot rest idle until Englishmen, male, female, and children are mercilessly massacred to the best interests of the country.
ref:
1909, Rambles and Adventures in Australasia, Canada, India, etc. By St. Michael-Podmore, London, page 270
type:
quotation
text:
In Bangkok at twelve o'clock they foam at the mouth and run, / But mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.
ref:
1931, Noel Coward, Mad Dogs and Englishmen
type:
quotation
text:
He has his dark -- well, darkish -- side under control. Which is to say that he is an Englishman, well practiced in masking pain and absurdity and descents into sheer goofiness with mannerly behavior, sly irony and stiff upper lips.
ref:
2003 November 3, Richard Schickel, “Sweet Agonies of Affection”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
Also, for their national flower, the Scots chose a thistle. That is a plant made of tiny knives and a throwing star. “The only flower I like is a flower that can pierce an Englishman’s throat!”.
ref:
2014 September 14, “Scottish Independence”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 17, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
type:
quotation
text:
... others, an aging Englishman who would do anything to further his fortune ...
ref:
2017, David Bélanger, Béatrice G. Martineau, Charles Grenier, “Kona”, in Kona, Canada: Parabole
type:
quotation
text:
Fucking above your head Englishman!
ref:
2008, Christopher-Lee dos Santos, At thy Call, Dino Pappas and Ksenija Micic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of England; a man who is English by ancestry, birth, descent, or naturalisation.
A grey partridge (in contrast with Frenchman, red-legged partridge).
A Canadian of British descent and/or whose first language is English (as opposed to French-descended, French-speaking Canadians).
A South African of British descent, and/or whose first language is English (as opposed to Afrikaans-speaking Afrikaner South Africans).
senses_topics:
|
3183 | word:
llama
word_type:
noun
expansion:
llama (plural llamas)
forms:
form:
llamas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
llama
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.
senses_topics:
|
3184 | word:
llama
word_type:
noun
expansion:
llama (plural llamas)
forms:
form:
llamas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
llama
etymology_text:
From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).
senses_examples:
text:
He was, as it were, a great Llama, shut up in a holy of holies, inscrutable, invisible, inexorable,—not to be seen by men's eyes or heard by their ears, hardly to be mentioned by ordinary men at such periods as these without an inward quaking.
ref:
1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Archaic form of lama.
senses_topics:
|
3185 | word:
color
word_type:
noun
expansion:
color (countable and uncountable, plural colors)
forms:
form:
colors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
A Dictionary of the English Language
Noah Webster
Samuel Johnson
Webster's Dictionary
color
etymology_text:
From Middle English colour, color, borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Old French colour, color, from Latin color.
Displaced English blee, Middle English blee (“color”), from Old English blēo. Also partially replaced Old English hīew (“color”) and its descendants (English hue), which is less often used in this sense. Doublet of couleur.
The spelling color was popularized in modern American English by Webster, to match the spelling of the word's Latin etymon, and make all American spellings of the derivatives consistent (colorimeter, coloration, colorize, colorless, etc).
senses_examples:
text:
Humans and birds can perceive color.
type:
example
text:
Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green.
type:
example
text:
The accident victim's face was white, drained of all color.
type:
example
text:
This film is broadcast in color. Most people dream in color, but some dream in black and white.
type:
example
text:
The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape.
type:
example
text:
Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies.
type:
example
text:
[…] her very embarrassment wore a graceful air; her high colour had softened down to a warm, delicate tint; and her dress, which looked beautifully new and fresh, was in good taste, and showed her off to advantage.
ref:
1864, Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham, Late Laurels, volumes 1-2, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
There is a great deal of colour in his writing.
type:
example
text:
a bit of local color
type:
example
text:
Could you give me some color with regards to which products made up the mix of revenue for this quarter?
type:
example
text:
The loss of their colors destroyed the regiment's morale.
type:
example
text:
The colors were raised over the new territory.
type:
example
text:
The arrival of the British Consul at Bangkok shall not take place before the ratification of this Treaty, nor until ten vessels owned by British subjects, sailing under British colours and with British papers, shall have entered the port of Bangkok for purposes of trade, subsequent to the signing of this Treaty.
ref:
1856, “Treaty signed April 18, 1855; ratified April 5, 1856”, in Treaty of friendship and commerce between Great Britain and Siam, Bangkok: J. H. Chandler, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
Both of the perpetrators were wearing colors.
type:
example
text:
He was awarded colors for his football.
type:
example
text:
At the far end of the continuum, Roger Seagraves collected personal items from people he'd murdered, or assassinated rather, since he'd done it under the color of serving his country.
ref:
2011, David Baldacci, The Collectors
type:
quotation
text:
Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars.
type:
example
text:
The only thing which this defendant is accused of doing is that he excluded this boy from the school, and he did it under the color of the statute relating to the subject, and did it because he was a colored boy.
ref:
1882, The Ohio Law Journal, volume 2, page 396
type:
quotation
text:
no such action, suit, or any other process or proceeding thereupon shall at any time be impeached, stayed, or delayed by or under colour or pretence of any privilege of Parliament.
ref:
1770, “Parliamentary Privilege Act 1770”, in legislation.gov.uk
type:
quotation
text:
He smelted Wells’s colour before it was valued, and by the time anybody saw it, it had been poured into bars and stamped with the Reserve seal.
ref:
2013, Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries, London, published 2014, page 184
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The spectral composition of visible light.
A subset thereof:
A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
A subset thereof:
Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
A subset thereof:
These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television).
A subset thereof:
Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
A paint.
Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
A standard, flag, or insignia:
A standard or banner.
A standard, flag, or insignia:
The flag of a nation or team.
A standard, flag, or insignia:
Gang insignia.
An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
medicine
sciences
government
military
politics
war
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
business
finance
media
publishing
typography
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
business
mining |
3186 | word:
color
word_type:
adj
expansion:
color (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
color
etymology_text:
From Middle English colour, color, borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Old French colour, color, from Latin color.
Displaced English blee, Middle English blee (“color”), from Old English blēo. Also partially replaced Old English hīew (“color”) and its descendants (English hue), which is less often used in this sense. Doublet of couleur.
The spelling color was popularized in modern American English by Webster, to match the spelling of the word's Latin etymon, and make all American spellings of the derivatives consistent (colorimeter, coloration, colorize, colorless, etc).
senses_examples:
text:
Color television and movies were considered a great improvement over black and white.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
senses_topics:
|
3187 | word:
color
word_type:
verb
expansion:
color (third-person singular simple present colors, present participle coloring, simple past and past participle colored)
forms:
form:
colors
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
coloring
tags:
participle
present
form:
colored
tags:
participle
past
form:
colored
tags:
past
wikipedia:
color
etymology_text:
From Middle English colour, color, borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Old French colour, color, from Latin color.
Displaced English blee, Middle English blee (“color”), from Old English blēo. Also partially replaced Old English hīew (“color”) and its descendants (English hue), which is less often used in this sense. Doublet of couleur.
The spelling color was popularized in modern American English by Webster, to match the spelling of the word's Latin etymon, and make all American spellings of the derivatives consistent (colorimeter, coloration, colorize, colorless, etc).
senses_examples:
text:
We could color the walls red.
type:
example
text:
My kindergartener loves to color.
type:
example
text:
Her face colored as she realized her mistake.
type:
example
text:
That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book.
type:
example
text:
Color me confused.
type:
example
text:
They tried to colour the industrial unrest as a merely local matter.
type:
example
text:
Can this graph be 2-colored?
type:
example
text:
You can color any map with four colors.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give something color.
To give something color.
To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
To become red through increased blood flow.
To affect without completely changing.
To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
senses_topics:
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences |
3188 | word:
copula
word_type:
noun
expansion:
copula (plural copulas or copulae)
forms:
form:
copulas
tags:
plural
form:
copulae
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
copula
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin copula (“connection, linking of words”), from co- (“together”) + apere (“fasten”). Doublet of couple.
senses_examples:
text:
I begin by arguing in section 2 that there are in fact at least two Celtic copulas, a grammatical copula that simply spells out tense and agreement, and a substantive copula formed on a lexically listed verbal stem.
ref:
1994, Randall Hendrick, “8: The Brythonic Celtic copula and head raising”, in David Lightfoot, Norbert Hornstein, editors, Verb Movement, page 163
type:
quotation
text:
The theory of conjunctively tensed copulae will be developed and stated with more precision in the following section.
ref:
2002, Quentin Smith, Language and Time, page 189
type:
quotation
text:
This paper explores the position of the copula in the development of the verb system in second language acquisition of Italian.
ref:
2003, Giuliano Bernini, “The copula in learner Italian: Finiteness and verbal inflection”, in Christine Dimroth, Marianne Starren, editors, Information Structure and the Dynamics of Language Acquisition, page 159
type:
quotation
text:
The present study focuses on the acquisition of a specific verbal element, namely the copula, in predicative constructions in a cross-linguistic perspective (English, German, Croatian).
ref:
2006, Christine Czinglar, Antigone Katiĉić, Katharina Köhler, Chris Schaner-Wolles, edited by Natalia Gagarina and Insa Gülzow, Strategies in the L1-Acquisition of Predication: The Copula Construction in German and Croatian, page 95
type:
quotation
text:
In 2000, David X. Li, a banker with a doctorate in statistics who was then at RiskMetrics, part of J. P. Morgan Chase, began using mathematical functions called Gaussian copulas to estimate the likelihood of corporations’ dying in unison.
ref:
2009 March 10, Dennis Overbye, “Mathematical Model and the Mortgage Mess”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
There is little statistical theoretical theory for copulas. Sensitivity studies of estimation procedures and goodness-of-fit tests for copulas are unknown.
ref:
2009, N. Balakrishnan, Chin-Diew Lai, Continuous Bivariate Distributions, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
Copulas provide an example of the haphazard evolution of quantitative finance. The key result is Sklar's theorem, which says that one can characterize any multivariate probability distribution by its copula (which specifies the correlation structure) and its marginal distributions (the conditional one dimensional distributions). Thus one can create multivariate distributions by mixing and matching copulas and marginal distributions.
ref:
2011, Julian Shaw, “Chapter 16: Julian Shaw”, in Richard R. Lindsey, Barry Schachter, editors, How I Became a Quant: Insights from 25 of Wall Street's Elite, page 240
type:
quotation
text:
A recently developed flexible method is provided by hierarchical Archimedean copulae (HAC).
ref:
2011, Ostap Okhrin, “Chapter 17: Fitting High-Dimensional Copulae to Data”, in Jin-Chuan Duan, Wolfgang Karl Härdle, James E. Gentle, editors, Handbook of Computational Finance, page 482
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A word, usually a verb, used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate (usually a subject complement or an adverbial), that unites or associates the subject with the predicate.
A function that represents the association between two or more variables, independent of the individual marginal distributions of the variables.
A device that connects two or more keyboards of an organ.
The act of copulation; mating.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
statistics
entertainment
lifestyle
music
biology
natural-sciences |
3189 | word:
ninth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ninth (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
ninth
etymology_text:
From Middle English nynthe, nynte, from Old English niġoþa, from Proto-Germanic *newundô; the -n- was reinserted by analogy with nine.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ordinal form of the number nine.
senses_topics:
|
3190 | word:
ninth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ninth (plural ninths)
forms:
form:
ninths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ninth
etymology_text:
From Middle English nynthe, nynte, from Old English niġoþa, from Proto-Germanic *newundô; the -n- was reinserted by analogy with nine.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person or thing in the ninth position.
One of nine equal parts of a whole.
The compound interval between any tone and the tone represented on the ninth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and two of the octave above; the octave of the second, consisting of 13 or 14 semitones (called minor and major ninth).
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
3191 | word:
ninth
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ninth (third-person singular simple present ninths, present participle ninthing, simple past and past participle ninthed)
forms:
form:
ninths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ninthing
tags:
participle
present
form:
ninthed
tags:
participle
past
form:
ninthed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
ninth
etymology_text:
From Middle English nynthe, nynte, from Old English niġoþa, from Proto-Germanic *newundô; the -n- was reinserted by analogy with nine.
senses_examples:
text:
οὐ[δ̓] ὲνατεὐεται, should be translated “a tithe (offering or fee) is not given (or paid)”, “no tithing” (literally, “a ninth is not given”, “no ninth-ing”, if I may coin such a word).
ref:
1973, Herakles on Thasos, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
A yearling "is ninthed" for Semele on Myconos (LSCG 96.23–24); the victim "is not ninthed" for Heracles Thasios
ref:
2010, Religion and Reconciliation in Greek Cities: The Sacred Laws of Selinus and Cyrene, page 161
type:
quotation
text:
THE NINTHER-MEAN COMBINATION When data are only a little worse than usual, so far as wild and straggling values are concerned, we can do well enough by taking means of the results of ninthing.
ref:
2014, Contributions to Survey Sampling and Applied Statistics: Papers in Honor of H.O Hartley
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lose a ninth.
To divide by nine.
senses_topics:
|
3192 | word:
Portuguese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Portuguese (comparative more Portuguese, superlative most Portuguese)
forms:
form:
more Portuguese
tags:
comparative
form:
most Portuguese
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Portuguese
etymology_text:
From Portuguese português.
senses_examples:
text:
The British army had already moved over the border and the commander had established his HQ high in the central Portuguese mountains at Viseu.
ref:
1973, Roger Parkinson, The Peninsular War, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
In San Diego County there is but one Portuguese fisherman, as is also the case in Los Angeles, the county immediately adjoining.
ref:
1887, George Brown Goode, The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, section IV, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
The latter feature indicates that a Portuguese consonant cannot constitute the nucleus of a syllable.
ref:
1981, Milton Mariano Azevedo, A Contrastive Phonology of Portuguese and English, page 31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to the region of Portugal.
Of or pertaining to the people of Portugal or their culture.
Of or pertaining to the Portuguese language.
senses_topics:
|
3193 | word:
Portuguese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Portuguese (plural Portuguese or (archaic) Portugueses)
forms:
form:
Portuguese
tags:
plural
form:
Portugueses
tags:
archaic
plural
wikipedia:
Portuguese
etymology_text:
From Portuguese português.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] but so close lay the boats that even single hooks snarled, and Harvey found himself in hot argument with a gentle, hairy Newfoundlander on one side and a howling Portuguese on the other.
ref:
1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous
type:
quotation
text:
With a view to securing its more efficient working, a Portuguese was placed in charge of the entire department as Vidane.
ref:
1920, Paulus Edward Pieris, Ceylon and the Portuguese, 1505-1658, page 184
type:
quotation
text:
Beresford required all materials for coatees, waistcoats and pantaloons to be sent out unmade, as the Portuguese were perfectly capable of making the suits up properly after delivery.
ref:
2000, René Chartrand, Bill Younghusband, The Portuguese Army of the Napoleonic Wars, volume 1, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person native to, or living in, Portugal.
senses_topics:
|
3194 | word:
Portuguese
word_type:
name
expansion:
Portuguese
forms:
wikipedia:
Portuguese
etymology_text:
From Portuguese português.
senses_examples:
text:
Portuguese, however, is slightly different from Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian in that there is no strict adjacency requirement between wh-words and the verbal cluster in indirect questions.
ref:
2000, João Costa, Portuguese Syntax: new comparative studies, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
Overall it is Taipa (which means mudflats in Portuguese and its Cantonese name Tam-zai also means mud flats) that has changed the most through reclamation followed by the east coast of the Macau Peninsula.
ref:
2001, Richard Louis Edmonds, William John Kyle, “Land Use in Macau: Changes between 1972 and 1994”, in Arthur H. Chen, editor, Culture of Metropolis in Macau: An International Symposium on Cultural Heritage: Strategies for the Twenty-first Century, Cultural Affairs Bureau [文化局], →OCLC, page 255, column 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Romance language originating in Portugal, and now the official language of Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guiné Bissau (Guinea-Bissau), Cape Verde, East Timor, and Brazil.
senses_topics:
|
3195 | word:
parents
word_type:
noun
expansion:
parents
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I like hanging out with my parents, but my friends think it's weird.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of parent
senses_topics:
|
3196 | word:
parents
word_type:
verb
expansion:
parents
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of parent
senses_topics:
|
3197 | word:
purple
word_type:
noun
expansion:
purple (plural purples)
forms:
form:
purples
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
purple
etymology_text:
From Middle English purple, purpel, from Old English purpul (“purple”, adjective), taken from Old English purpure (“purple colour”, noun), from Latin purpura (“purple dye, shellfish”), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple fish”), perhaps of Semitic origin. Doublet of purpura and purpure.
The sense of "imperial power" is from the wearing of the color purple by emperors and kings.
senses_examples:
text:
web colour:
text:
to put on the imperial purple
type:
example
text:
1776-1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
He was born in the purple.
text:
When we picture to ourselves his [Napoleon’s] dawning military genius at Toulon—his daring and decided politics in the storms of the Revolution—his Cæsarian ambition in assuming the purple—[…]
ref:
1829 March, “Napoleon a Sainte Helene. Opinion d’un Medecin sur la Maladie de l’Empereur Napoleon, et sur la Cause de sa Mort; offerte a son Fils, au Jour de sa Majorite. Par S. Hereau, […]”, in James Johnson, editor, The Medico-Chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine, volume X, number XX, London: […] S. Highley, […], page 434
type:
quotation
text:
The immediate successors of Augustus indulged in appalling cruelties towards senators and towards possible competitors for the purple.
ref:
1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.29
type:
quotation
text:
Sure, some purple Owlsley.
ref:
2005, Tipi Paul, Wanna Smoke?: The Adventures of a Storyteller, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
“Purple smoke is no joke. Especially when it is real purple. The smell, taste, and high is easily one of the best in the world. One bowl of some purple Kush, and I'm done for a couple of hours.
ref:
2010, Mark Arax, West of the West, page 221
type:
quotation
text:
She preferred to smoke some good purple, but getting high wasn't an option.
ref:
2011, Danielle Santiago, Allure of the Game, page 148
type:
quotation
text:
the banded purple
type:
example
text:
Fishtailing out the parking lot leaving Magic / Sipping on the purple and the yellow, drinking magic
ref:
2012, “Magic”, in Pluto, performed by Future ft. T.I.
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A colour between red and magenta; violet, though often closer to magenta.
Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.
Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity.
Imperial power.
Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.
The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana.
Purpura.
Earcockle, a disease of wheat.
Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis).
A cardinalate.
Ellipsis of purple drank.
Synonym of snakebite and black.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
|
3198 | word:
purple
word_type:
adj
expansion:
purple (comparative purpler or more purple, superlative purplest or most purple)
forms:
form:
purpler
tags:
comparative
form:
more purple
tags:
comparative
form:
purplest
tags:
superlative
form:
most purple
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
purple
etymology_text:
From Middle English purple, purpel, from Old English purpul (“purple”, adjective), taken from Old English purpure (“purple colour”, noun), from Latin purpura (“purple dye, shellfish”), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple fish”), perhaps of Semitic origin. Doublet of purpura and purpure.
The sense of "imperial power" is from the wearing of the color purple by emperors and kings.
senses_examples:
text:
purple state
type:
example
text:
purple city
type:
example
text:
In the end, Nevada remained the quintessential purple state. On the maps that television used to illustrate political trends, Republican states were red and Democratic blue. Nevada blended the colors. It had a bright blue core in the heart of Las Vegas, surrounded by a purple suburban belt. Most of the rest of the state was bright red, especially in the rural counties.
ref:
2010, Hal K. Rothman, The Making of Modern Nevada, University of Nevada Press, page 162
type:
quotation
text:
As Mr. Friedlander conceived it, Reason was neither strictly right-wing libertarian nor strictly left — in modern parlance, neither red nor blue but a purple amalgam of the two.
ref:
2011 May 7, Margalit Fox, “Lanny Friedlander, Founder of Reason Magazine, Dies at 63”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Political colorists can be promiscuous in calling states purple, but my state is true to that hue. I speak of North Carolina, and I have receipts: While our junior senator, Ted Budd, is a Republican who won election to a first term in 2022 by about three percentage points, our governor, Roy Cooper, is a Democrat who won election to a second term in 2020 by more than four.
ref:
2023 May 4, Frank Bruni, “Republicans Are Running Wild in My State”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
A writer who has made a career of churning out thick novels may be expected to write too quickly to notice that patches of her writing are unbearably purple.
ref:
1979 August 4, Rob Schmieder, “Anything a Man Does”, in Gay Community News, page 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a purple hue.
Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support.
Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
Imperial; regal.
Blood-red; bloody.
Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
Completed in the fastest time so far in a given session.
senses_topics:
government
politics
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports |
3199 | word:
purple
word_type:
verb
expansion:
purple (third-person singular simple present purples, present participle purpling, simple past and past participle purpled)
forms:
form:
purples
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
purpling
tags:
participle
present
form:
purpled
tags:
participle
past
form:
purpled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
purple
etymology_text:
From Middle English purple, purpel, from Old English purpul (“purple”, adjective), taken from Old English purpure (“purple colour”, noun), from Latin purpura (“purple dye, shellfish”), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple fish”), perhaps of Semitic origin. Doublet of purpura and purpure.
The sense of "imperial power" is from the wearing of the color purple by emperors and kings.
senses_examples:
text:
[T]he Capri cliffs, the tops of which were still pink against the purpling sky.
ref:
1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 143
type:
quotation
text:
The gang leader purpled and raised his gun.
ref:
1999, David Edelstein, In Nomine: Corporeal Player's Guide, Steve Jackson Games,, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To turn purple in colour.
To dye purple.
To clothe in purple.
senses_topics:
|
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